Dictionary

1. (

• specious ,
• spurious

) plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" ;

2. (

• gilded ,
• meretricious ,
• specious ,
• glossy

) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" ;