fallacious
adjective
containing a fallacy; logically unsound.
fallaciousness
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a word derived from
fallacious.
Example Sentences
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In the past year there's been a lot of talk about the lack of trust in science and the need to distinguish legitimate research from misinformation, disinformation, and other forms of fallaciousness.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2022
A bitter opponent of the Newspaper Guild today, Lawyer Neylan likes to relate the Call strike episode as somehow illustrating the fallaciousness of a newspaper labor movement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite his earnestly-avowed opinions as to the inutility and fallaciousness of all psychological inquiries, he is compelled to admit that "the phenomena of life" are "known by immediate consciousness."
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
She had been now so long accustomed to despair, and was so convinced of the fallaciousness of hope, that she was almost inclined to turn away from it, as from something painful.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
The poet, whose name is Deor, has experienced the fallaciousness of early success.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
