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Significados de specious em inglês

Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.

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Plausible but false.

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Examples for "gilded"
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At eight in the morning the sun already gilded the vast opening.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3
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I have all the philosophers in my library gilded on the edges.
Les Misérables
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The brightest of sunshine gilded the spires and steeples of the village.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
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The gilded Swiss clock in the drawing-room was striking its tiny gong.
The Pretty Lady
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The morning sun gilded the new lapis collar that she was wearing.
Nefertiti
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There is not a meretricious or humiliating book in the whole collection.
The Greatest English Classic / A Study of the King James Version...
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Gloriani's statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith's work.
Roderick Hudson
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The meretricious melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
The Plastic Age
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The over-rated, overpaid, and most meretricious painter died at Hampton Court in 1707.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
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It's a meretricious parade in which style reigns supreme over content.
The Irish Times
Uso de specious em inglês
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It was specious-whichis the best that can be said for it.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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He would be put on the sacrificial altar for that specious truth.
Rakes and radishes
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His demand of the supreme authority was evaded on some specious pretext.
The History of the Thirty Years' War
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Drawing specious connections isn't just for musicians, but music journos as well.
Wired
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His reasoning is specious, but beneath the sophistry there is a plan.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
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This reason which they display we have above removed as especially specious.
The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
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A specious Syllogism that is not really valid is called a Parasyllogism.
Logic: Deductive and Inductive
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Even then the real reasons for holding the women can be specious.
The Guardian
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Adverse appearances might be numerous and specious, but they were unquestionably false.
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
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He is blinding you-weavinga bandage of specious words across your eyes.
The Mystics: A Novel
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Under a specious, smiling countenance you all conceal a heart of gall.
Imogen: A Pastoral Romance
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Her pulses beat wildly, but she forced herself to a specious calmness.
The Gray Dawn
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But Powers was not a man to be misled by specious appearances.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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But so specious a piece of special pleading cannot serve Clive's turn.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
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He courted power by nobler, or, at least, by more specious arts.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
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Yet though Abdiel's intentions were undeniably good, his argument is rather specious.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 / Essays English and American
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