Occasionally circumstances might speciously justify the publisher's appearance in the guise of a dedicator.
The earlier manifestation, although speciously the more serious, was in effect innocuous.
This theory owes its origin to a speciously lucky guess which was first disclosed to the public in 1832, and won for a time almost universal acceptance.
He calls speciously by the mildest of names the birth of the soul that has come from elsewhere a living in a strange country.
These acts of prerogative were most speciously excused by the vices of a popular election.
On their arrival in that city, though other motives were speciously pretended, yet Hannibal was perfectly sensible that himself only was aimed at.
He had many conferences with him, paid him several visits, and speciously affected to show a particular esteem for him on all occasions.
Accordingly he despatched a messenger under a flag of truce with the statement, purely fictitious, though speciously based on certain irrelevant facts, that negotiations had been opened for a general armistice.
It was not hard to reason speciously that it was a colony which had been intended, and a colony which had been planted; that in his return he was using the discretion granted by the Directory, and carrying out a plan announced from the outset.
This man's speech consisted partly in ridiculing his opponent, his bigness, his awkwardness, his dress, his youth.
Go, call him back and return him half the money at least, or I will not receive one cent of it for my share.
The result, if speciously pretty, is not a bit convincing.
There are poems of Tennyson, of Wordsworth, even of the speciously recondite Browning, that have entered into the general consciousness.
These circulars are very speciously worded, and there is an air of candour about them likely to allure.
But it is the greatest proof of human weakness that there is no movement however beneficent, no doctrine however sound, no truth however absolute, but that it can be speciously so extended, so expanded, so emphasized as to lose its identity.
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