specious
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Superficially convincing but actually flawed.
A specious argument that collapsed under a single question.
Law adjective
Superficially convincing but actually unsound.
The tribunal dismissed the specious argument that silence amounted to consent to arbitrate.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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