quasi-scientific
- a word derived from scientific.
Example Sentences
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The twists and shifting alliances are whiplash-inducing, and the quasi-scientific explanations are just this side of “A wizard did it.”
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
In some cases, these tests would be carried out in a quasi-scientific mode: The victim might be blindfolded, then touched by several different people in addition to the suspected witch.
From Slate • May 22, 2018
The few quasi-scientific points in Rose’s new piece are patently false.
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2017
But that quasi-scientific interest — “hunting the human temperament,” as he says — makes Le Clerc reluctant to capture these men and thereby bring his clandestine observations to an end.
From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2016
He also ventured quasi-scientific explanations of the confusion of tongues at Babel, the destruction of Sodom, the conversion of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, and the dividing of the Red Sea.
From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson
