specious

(adjective)

adjective

1. plausible but false

- a specious claim

Similar word(s): false, spurious

2. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

Similar word(s): insincere, gilded, glossy, meretricious

Sentences with specious as an adjective:

- This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.