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    specious

    specious - Dictionary definition and meaning for word specious

    Definition
    (adj) plausible but false
    Synonyms : spurious
    Example Sentence
    • a specious claim
    • spurious inferences
    Definition
    (adj) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
    Synonyms : gilded , meretricious
    Example Sentence
    • the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
    • meretricious praise
    • a meretricious argument
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for specious

It sounds like 'suspicious'.

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Like the movie "Species" about an alien woman who looks human but has other plans

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Seemingly true/plausible/attractive, but when SPECulated closely, it was found to be fallaCIOUS.

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