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speciousness

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spe·cious  (spshs)
adj.
1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious: a specious argument.
2. Deceptively attractive.
[Middle English, attractive, from Latin specisus, from specis, appearance; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]
specious·ly adv.
speci·osi·ty (-sh-s-t), specious·ness (-shs-ns) n.
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Noun1.speciousness - an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"
meretriciousness
deceptiveness, obliquity - the quality of being deceptive


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Indeed, Pierre Bon-Bon, from what I have been able to understand of his disposition, was of all men the least likely to be imposed upon by any speciousness of exterior deportment.
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