specious vs. spurious

adjective

  1. apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible:

    specious arguments.

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  2. pleasing to the eye but deceptive.

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  3. Obsolete. pleasing to the eye; fair.


adjective

  1. not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.

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  2. Biology. (of two or more parts, plants, etc.) having a similar appearance but a different structure.
  3. of illegitimate birth; bastard.