speciousness
noun[U]
uk/ˈspiː.ʃəs.nəs/us/ˈspiː.ʃəs.nəs/thefactofseemingto berightortrue, but really beingwrongorfalse:
似是而非;虚假The speciousness of hisdefencecan beshownby acloserlookat theevidence.仔细检查证据就能发现他的辩护看似真实实为虚假。
It waseasytodetectthe speciousness in some of the speaker'sarguments.很容易看出发言人的论据中那些似是而非的部分。
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specious
- She was notconcernedby the speciousness of myfalseinterpretation.
- Heargued, with the speciousness thatoncemade him millions, that only he could do thejob.
- The speciousness ofsuggestingheknewnothing about thecrimeisobvious.
Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomalous
- awry
- bark
- false
- false positive
- falsely
- flawed
- gross
- grossly
- invalidly
- irregular
- irregularly
- liberal
- liberally
- mal-
- quarrel
- wrongly