speciousness
121hypocrisy — [n] deceitfulness, pretense affectation, bad faith*, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity,… …
122specious — ► ADJECTIVE 1) superficially plausible, but actually wrong. 2) misleading in appearance. DERIVATIVES speciously adverb speciousness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «beautiful»: from Latin speciosus fair, plausible …
123speciously — specious ► ADJECTIVE 1) superficially plausible, but actually wrong. 2) misleading in appearance. DERIVATIVES speciously adverb speciousness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «beautiful»: from Latin speciosus fair, plausible …
124specious — [spē′shəs] adj. [ME, fair, beautiful < L speciosus, showy, beautiful, plausible < species, look, show, appearance: see SPECIES] 1. seeming to be good, sound, correct, logical, etc. without really being so; plausible but not genuine… …
125deceptiveness — noun the quality of being deceptive • Syn: ↑obliquity • Derivationally related forms: ↑oblique (for: ↑obliquity), ↑deceptive • Hypernyms: ↑dishonesty …
126gilded — adjective 1. having the deep slightly brownish color of gold (Freq. 2) long aureate (or golden) hair a gold carpet • Syn: ↑aureate, ↑gilt, ↑gold, ↑golden • Similar to: ↑ …
127obliquity — noun 1. the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle • Syn: ↑asynclitism • Hypernyms: ↑abnormality, ↑abnormalcy • Part Holonyms: ↑parturiency, ↑labor, ↑ …
128specious — adj. 1 superficially plausible but actually wrong (a specious argument). 2 misleadingly attractive in appearance. Derivatives: speciosity n. speciously adv. speciousness n. Etymology: ME, = beautiful, f. L speciosus (as SPECIES) …
