speciously

adv

1. In a specious manner; fallaciously and erroneously, but seeming superficially to be correct.

   “Exasperated, as he might speciously allege, by the injuries of a similar nature, he hastened with a few followers to join the standard, and to betray the confidence, of his too credulous friend.”

   “And thus his jealous soul speciously argued to excuse the separation of father and child.”

   “Once viewed—however speciously—as an escape from the wider world, American sports and politics have been explicitly entwined since athletes began protesting civil rights injustices, prodding their organisations to take a stance amid the polarising rise to power of Donald Trump.”

2. Specially.

   “I will do what I can for them all three, for so I haue promisd, and Ile bee as good as my word, but speciously for M. Fenton.”