sophistic
adjective
of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
sophistically
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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
"My goin' to Benny," urged Cai sophistically, "was a case of one eddicated man consultin' another, as is frequently done."
From Hocken and Hunken by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
All nature beckons you forth and murmurs to you sophistically that such hours should be devoted to collecting impressions.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
Of course the same argument could be used sophistically by a man with strong sensual passions and appetites, who could similarly urge that he must be intended to gratify them.
From Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson
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 John Stuart Mill
