Meanings (ES + gloss)
especioso
Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious.
This idea that we must see through what we have started is specious, however good it may sound.
now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.
de pretexto • falso • fingido • pretextado
Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
This argument, though specious, will not, upon examination, be found solid.
[T]he success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms.
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