| Criticism should be founded on a writer's life and work, not just on previous criticism or specious theories. |
| At first sight, the distinction between a person and a human being might appear to be a specious one. |
| These arguments are specious, but they are based on rosy assumptions or bad analogies. |
| Kindly keep your preposterous, specious opinions out of conversations that don't concern you! |
| He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies. |
| The usual specious arguments we see in one country are now being regurgitated in others. |
