Synonyms and Antonyms of specious
- a specious argument that really does not stand up under close examination
artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wily
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