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    Synonyms and Antonyms of specious

    tending or having power to deceive
    • a specious argument that really does not stand up under close examination
    Synonyms of specious

    beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, fallacious, false, misleading

    Words Related to specious

    artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wily

    inaccurate, incorrect, wrong

    bewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzling

    ambidextrous, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful

    bogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, jive [slang], phony (also phoney), sham, spurious

    insidious, perfidious, treacherous

    ambiguous, circuitous, equivocal, evasive

    artificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced

    Near Antonyms of specious

    candid, direct, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, straight

    clarifying, elucidative, explanatory, illuminating

    revealing, revelatory

    honest, trustworthy, truthful

    Antonyms of specious

    aboveboard, forthright, nondeceptive, straightforward

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