specious  /sp'iʃəs/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  specious
  (a.)徒有其表的,似是而非的,外表美觀的

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Specious \Spe"cious\, a. [L. speciosusgood-looking, beautiful,
     specious, fr. species look, show, appearance; cf. F.
     sp['e]coeux. See {Species}.]
     1. Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or
        look; showy.
  
              Some [serpents] specious and beautiful to the eye.
                                                    --Bp.
                                                    Richardson.
  
              The rest, far greater part, Will deem in outward
              rites and specious forms Religion satisfied.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     2. Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct,
        but not so in reality; appearing well at first view;
        plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.
  
              Misled for a moment by the specious names of
              religion, liberty, and property.      --Macaulay.
  
              In consequence of their greater command of specious
              expression.                           --J. Morley.
  
     Syn: Plausible; showy; ostensible; colorable; feasible. See
          {Plausible}. -- {Spe"xious*ly}, adv. --
          {Spe"cious*ness}, n.

資料來源(3): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  specious
       adj 1: plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious
              inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"-
              Ethel Albert [syn: {spurious}]
       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" [syn: {gilded}, {meretricious}]