gilded vs specious

gilded

adj
  • Having a falsely pleasant appearance; sugarcoated. 

  • Having the color or quality of gold. 

  • Made of gold or covered by a thin layer of gold. 

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 gilded and specious occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )