mishandled vs specious

mishandled

specious

adj
  • Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful. 

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

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

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