首页英语词典speciousspecious英英释意

specious

英 ['spiːʃəs] 美['spiʃəs]
  • adj. 似是而非的;外表美观的;华而不实的;徒有其表的

英英释意


1. plausible but false;
"specious reasoning"
"the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert
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"