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}]