specious

In a sentence

Six example sentences with specious, each labelled with its topic.

• Zeno's argument that motion is impossible sounds airtight until you notice the specious step hidden in the third premise.

  Philosophy

• Doubling the assumed growth rate makes the project look profitable, but that is a specious result resting on one implausible number.

  Economics

• The defense rested on a specious analogy that collapsed the moment the judge asked which statute actually governed the case.

  Law

• The fund's specious pitch showed ten years of gains but quietly left out the two years it lost half its value.

  Finance

• The growth chart was specious: every free signup was counted as a customer, though fewer than one in fifty ever paid.

  Startups

• Ice cream sales and drownings rise together each summer, a specious link that vanishes once you account for hot weather.

  Science

Found in these word lists

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