specious
英 ['spiːʃəs]
美['spiʃəs]
- adj. 似是而非的；外表美观的；华而不实的；徒有其表的
英英释意
- 1. plausible but false;
- "specious reasoning"
- "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
- 2. plausible but false;
- "a specious claim"
- 3. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;
- "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
- "meretricious praise"
- "a meretricious argument"