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Having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth. My lord, you have lost a friend indeed; And I dare swear you borrow not that face Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own. Shak.

False; specious; counterfeit. [R. & Obs.] "Thou simular man of virtue." Shak.

the whole science of pleading. Stephen. The phrase is sometimes popularly applied to the specious, but unsound, argumentation of one whose aim is victory, and not truth. Burrill. -- Special property (Law), a qualified or limited ownership possession, as in wild animals, things found or bailed. -- Special session, an…

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness. Professions built so largely on speciosity, instead of performance. Carlyle.

Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial. "Tinsel trappings." Milton.