See specious on Wiktionary
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"text": "now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.",
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"ref": "1776, Thomas Paine, Common Sense:",
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"ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:",
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"ref": "2016 May 18, David Sims, “The Outcry Against the All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Remake Gets Louder”, in The Atlantic:",
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"ref": "1829, William Phelan, Mortimer O'Sullivan, “Ireland: A digest taken before Select Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, appointed to inquire into the State of Ireland, 1824—25”, in The Christian Review and Clerical Magazine, volume III, page 472:",
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"text": "And could any thing be more ſpecious, or more equal, than that fair diſtribution of power and profit, which men called the NEW MODEL?",
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"ref": "1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt i:",
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"ref": "1788, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 59:",
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