a. | 1. | Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy. |
2. | Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; |
Adj. | 1. | specious - plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert Synonyms: spurious |
2. | specious - plausible but false; "a specious claim" | |
3. | specious - based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" Synonyms: gilded, meretricious |