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At eight in the morning the sun already gilded the vast opening.
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I have all the philosophers in my library gilded on the edges.
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The brightest of sunshine gilded the spires and steeples of the village.
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The gilded Swiss clock in the drawing-room was striking its tiny gong.
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The morning sun gilded the new lapis collar that she was wearing.
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There is not a meretricious or humiliating book in the whole collection.
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Gloriani's statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith's work.
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The meretricious melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
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The over-rated, overpaid, and most meretricious painter died at Hampton Court in 1707.
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It's a meretricious parade in which style reigns supreme over content.
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It was specious-whichis the best that can be said for it.
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He would be put on the sacrificial altar for that specious truth.
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His demand of the supreme authority was evaded on some specious pretext.
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Drawing specious connections isn't just for musicians, but music journos as well.
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His reasoning is specious, but beneath the sophistry there is a plan.
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This reason which they display we have above removed as especially specious.
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A specious Syllogism that is not really valid is called a Parasyllogism.
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Even then the real reasons for holding the women can be specious.
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Adverse appearances might be numerous and specious, but they were unquestionably false.
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He is blinding you-weavinga bandage of specious words across your eyes.
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Under a specious, smiling countenance you all conceal a heart of gall.
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Her pulses beat wildly, but she forced herself to a specious calmness.
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But Powers was not a man to be misled by specious appearances.
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But so specious a piece of special pleading cannot serve Clive's turn.
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He courted power by nobler, or, at least, by more specious arts.
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Yet though Abdiel's intentions were undeniably good, his argument is rather specious.
