| 词汇 | speciously |
| 释义 | speciously adverb uk /ˈspiː.ʃəs.li/ us /ˈspiː.ʃəs.li/ in a way that seems to be right or true, but is really wrong or false: 似是而非地;貌似有理地;虚假地 This inequality was speciously justified by reasoning that women had less need for education than men.为这种不平等找的虚假理由是女性对教育的需求比男性少。 He claims, perhaps speciously, that the two had a relationship.他声称这两人有过恋爱关系，这是不实的。 See specious Nations have a history of speciously justifying invasions. Robespierre was speciously promising peace and a return of prosperity as a reward for handing him complete control of the reins of power. They argued speciously that categorizing these attacks as hate crimes actually made racism worse. Wrong aberrant aberrantly abnormal amiss anomalous fallaciousness false false negative false positive falsely iniquity invalidly irregularly liberal liberally quarrel wrongheaded wrongheadedly wrongly X, x Examples of speciouslyspeciously Superficially and speciously, that is a most attractive remedy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is always a speciously good reason for tampering with freedom at first, but it is the first step that counts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A referendum, although speciously a democratic instrument, may well not be so at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has been variously described, and on occasions rather speciously described. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are other ways of achieving what have speciously been referred to as "good social works". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is heard from them is performed speciously but without personality. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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