False

• Plausible but wrong
• Convincing at first, but flawed
• Plausible but untrue
• Superficially plausible
• Deceptively convincing
• Plausible but false
• Apparently right, but not really so

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "pleasing to the sight, fair," from Latin speciosus "good-looking, beautiful, fair," also "showy, pretended, plausible, specious," from species "appearance, form, figure, beauty" (see species ). Meaning "seemingly desirable, reasonable or probable, ...

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adj. plausible but false; "specious reasoning"; "the spurious inferences from obsolescent notions of causality"- Ethel Albert [syn: spurious ] plausible but false; "a specious claim" based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but ...

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