off-the-wall vs specious

off-the-wall

adj
  • Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd. 

  • Of a person's behaviour: greatly inappropriate. 

specious

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

  • Employing fallacious but deceptively plausible arguments; deceitful. 

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

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