Word: specious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like fiction: you can't sit down and say, 'Goddammit, I'm going to blast out these sentences and send them to the publisher' -- this kind of John Wayneism of literature. You just can't." He finds the notion of a so-called Rocky Mountain school of literature equally specious. Still, he admits that "there is a residual frontier feeling of open possibilities that seems to be a part of the voice of living here...
Instead, it became clear that COCA was, frankly, engaged in spreading specious and patently false propaganda. Don't be misled by its use of words like "self-determination"--COCA members are interested in no such thing...
...argument that the houses are already sufficiently diverse is transparently specious. I don't need to cite statistics for you to know that house stereotypes are not entirely unfounded...
...perks for signing premature, postdated contracts. But the agents' lawyers maneuvered strenuously to shift the indictment's focus. Their target: the system of big-time college athletics that, with box-office and TV profits at stake, often looks the other way when stars get improper favors and that condones specious academic regimens to maintain those stars' eligibility...
Even if I didn't do it, someone else would. It might as well be someone who at least knows it's bad. A perfectly specious argument that liberals regularly condemn in the likes of a certain university that refuses to divest of its holdings in firms that deal with South Africa...