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How to use speciously in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word speciously? Here are some examples.

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The Sherpa-roadies were ecstatic and told jokes throughout the evening, while each of us nodded speciously, not really listening.
You're sternly and speciously warned against vandalistically breaking the law.
His presentation was very polished and, I would imagine, speciously appealing to many not familiar with the facts.
The government speciously said it withheld to protect the privacy of the advice given by the.
It has let the opposition Social Democrats portray themselves, somewhat speciously, as champions of financial rigour.
The play speciously associates giving all with ultimate return.
The more someone tries to isolate them, as it happened then speciously, the more we will be united.
But it is also sentimental in the literary sense: an exhausted form has been speciously revived.
In terms of immigration, those who argue speciously that the strengthening of screening approaches is anti-immigrant are profoundly mistaken.
We were immersed in a culture of war, speciously justified and sustained by the prevailing ideologies.
Even so, one needn't necessarily be a liberal-arts graduate to regard as distinctly and speciously utilitarian the idea that higher education is, above all, a route to economic advancement.
Examples from Classical Literature
This was a chance, he speciously urged, which Miss Devereux should not be suffered to miss.
How was it possible she should behave so speciously as she did all the time the lady staid with us!
These notions, imperfectly understood and speciously interpreted, are by many regarded as furnishing a sanction for war.
It is so insidious and speciously good, that it has found its way, like an angel of light, to the best hearts and holiest places.
In fact, upon the neutral fact of evolution a theory of pessimism may be built up as speciously as a theory of optimism.
And in the mean time we may observe, that such a way of Arguing may, it seems, be speciously accommodated to differing Hypotheses.
After an autumn speciously benign came our season of cold and snow.
It was uniformly not so hopeful as formerly, while speciously apologetic.
They were all still clean at three years, which is a speciously high success rate.
In England all men spoke one tongue, speciously like American to the ear, but on cross-examination unintelligible.
As a rationale for this task, participants were speciously told that their selections would help the program to choose appropriate targets for a later task.
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