The word of the day is specious:
1. apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible
Latin speciōsus fair, good-looking, beautiful, equivalent to speci (ēs) (see species ) + -ōsus -ous (dictionary.com)
2. pleasing to the eye but deceptive.
"Albee's parents paid little attention to him; he was a bourgeois prop, meant to complete their specious idea of 'family.'"
- Hilton Als, "Just the Folks: Edward Albee's bad marriages", 1 December 2014 The New Yorker
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