It is unlikely that the Duke was convinced by such specious arguments.

公爵不太可能被这种貌似正确的理由说服。

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After somehow failing to argue competently on behalf of a patently justifiable invasion, and as its more specious arguments were collapsing, the Bush administration then pivoted with breathtaking enthusiasm to nation building, something so Clinton-tinged that it had previously been held in contempt.

WSJ: Our Blindness

' Though their facts are often wrong and their arguments specious, they have come to dominate the national security debate virtually without challenge.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Unactionable

There is an implied moral critique here of Janus-faced profiteers who ought really to admit that their arguments are specious.

ECONOMIST: Food safety