above-board vs specious

above-board

adj
  • In open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. 

adv
  • Honestly; openly. 

specious

adj
  • Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive. 

  • Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful. 

  • Seemingly well-reasoned, plausible or true, but actually fallacious. 

How often have the words above-board and specious occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )