specious
I
adjective
affected, apparent, appearing, artificial, assumed, believable, bogus, casuistic, casuistical, colorable, colored, convincing, counterfeit, credible, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, erroneous, exterior, external, fake, fallacious, false, hypocritical, illusional, illusive, illusory, misleading, ostensible, outward, persuasive, phony, plausible, posed, pretend, pretended, professed, purported, put on, resembling truth, seeming, simulated, so-called, sophistic, sophistical, speciosus, spurious, unfounded, would-be
associated concepts: specious argument, specious defense
II
index
deceptive, delusive, ostensible, purported, sophistic, untenable
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006