| Criticism should be founded on a writer's life and work, not just on previous criticism or specious theories. |
| These arguments are specious, but they are based on rosy assumptions or bad analogies. |
| He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies. |
| At first sight, the distinction between a person and a human being might appear to be a specious one. |
| I've always found this kind of argument a little specious, since most people don't know and could care less about when a composer wrote a work. |
| The arguments that many have made, relative to the so-called failure to connect the dots, appear to be specious, at best. |
