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specious argument

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English

Syllables
specious ar-gu-ment
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

an argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious

Questions

What does specious argument mean?
an argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious

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