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"specious" in Spanish
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specious(also: meretricious)
This reasoning may be superficially plausible but I find it specious.
Este razonamiento puede ser superficialmente plausible, pero lo encuentro especioso.
What specious reasoning we are hearing from the well-meaning, open-minded Left, however!
Y, sin embargo, la bien intencionada y abierta izquierda está defendiendo un argumento sumamente especioso.
specious(also: deceptive, delusive, fallacious, meretricious)
They use what I believe to be specious arguments for this in a letter to our President.
Para ello, utilizan lo que considero razonamientos engañosos en una carta a nuestro Presidente.
The rationale seems rather specious to me, and so we are in favour of keeping this item on the agenda.
Los motivos se me antojan bastante engañosos, de modo que estamos a favor de mantener este punto en el orden del día.
This is a specious distinction, which even the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market could not support.
Se trata de una distinción engañosa que ni siquiera la Comisión de Asuntos Jurídicos y Mercado Interior ha podido hacer suya.
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This is not an intellectually specious argument, Commissioner.
Señor Comisario, este no es un argumento de bajo rigor intelectual.
This specious distinction implies that the States exist without reference to the will of their citizens.
Esta distinción aparente implica que los Estados serían entidades separadas de la voluntad de los ciudadanos.
All manner of specious arguments are frequently deployed to hide the lack of the political will to make freedom of movement a reality.
A menudo se utilizan todo tipo de argucias para camuflar la falta de voluntad política para realizar la libre circulación.
I sympathise with all those people who have been taken in by the scaremongering and utterly specious arguments that have emanated from the company concerned.
Lo siento por todas las personas que han caído en el pánico provocado y en las argumentaciones sencillamente erróneas.
Reality shows that the objectives are specious and the means ineffective and that a radically different approach is needed.
La realidad demuestra que es necesaria una política radicalmente distinta, y demuestra la hipocresía de los objetivos y la falta de eficacia de las medidas.
Drawing such a parallel is specious and, at a pedagogical level, dangerous: does anybody seriously think that terrorists arrive in Europe on board makeshift boats?
Trazar ese paralelismo es superfluo y peligroso a nivel pedagógico. ¿De veras piensa alguien que los terroristas llegan a Europa en pateras?
Drawing such a parallel is specious and, at a pedagogical level, dangerous: does anybody seriously think that terrorists arrive in Europe on board makeshift boats?
El número de los que encuentran la muerte en el Mediterráneo es mil veces mayor que el número de muertes causadas por los atentados terroristas.
I sympathise with all those people who have been taken in by the scaremongering and utterly specious arguments that have emanated from the company concerned.
Está claro que con la directiva sobre complementos alimenticios no prohibimos terapias vitamínicas ni interferimos con ello en los métodos de medicina natural.
That argument is superficially plausible, but on closer inspection turns out to be specious, and nowhere is this more neatly demonstrated than in aviation policy.
El argumento es aparentemente válido, pero si se examina con detenimiento se comprueba que no lo es, y en ningún lugar queda tan patente como en la política aeronáutica.
The argument that the market demands tobacco and that current European production must thus be maintained is a specious argument quoted by various Members of this House.
El argumento de que en el mercado hay una demanda de tabaco y que por lo tanto hay que mantener la producción europea actual es una argucia que encuentra en esta Asamblea algunos adeptos.
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