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The Clue

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The Answer

SPECIOUS

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Notes

The answer SPECIOUS is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.

Definition

SPECIOUS as an adjective:

1. (specious, spurious) = plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
2. (gilded, meretricious, specious) = based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"