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Adjective: specious  spee-shus
  1. Plausible but false
    "a specious claim";
    - spurious
     
  2. Based on pretence; deceptively pleasing
    "the specious and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility";
    - gilded, meretricious, glossy

See also: false, insincere

Encyclopedia: Specious