sophistically
- a word derived from sophistic.
Example Sentences
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The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gravest of them is, to argue sophistically, to suppress facts or arguments, to misstate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion.
From On Liberty by Mill, John Stuart
But the adversaries distort the meaning by sophistically transferring the universal particle to only one part: "All things will be clean to those having given alms."
From Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Melanchthon, Philipp
One of the principal advocates of that view among writers on Political Economy is the vivacious, acute and practically not unskillful, but sophistically superficial Macleod.
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
We argued ethics sophistically as to whether a convinced agnostic might on occasion hide what he believed.
From A Tramp's Notebook by Roberts, Morley
