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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

And yet they have been often and sophistically cited by the vivisector as plausible arguments for inflicting both excessive and useless pain.

From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Leffingwell, Albert

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)

Dear Friend, you're right and I am wrong; My quibbles are not worth a song, And I sophistically tease My fancy sad to tricks like these.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

It was admitted that her familiar spirit guesses, attempts to extract information from the people who sit with her, and tries sophistically to conceal his failures.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew