sophistries
- plural of sophistry.
Example Sentences
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Malcolm Gladwell has spent his entire career creating fallacious arguments otherwise know as sophistries.
From New York Times • May 29, 2018
Baraka’s poems are filled with tantrums and sophistries, stances and dances.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2015
He’s begun to keep tabs on the online world, alert to the multiplicity of life and language beneath the tantrums and sophistries.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2014
De Botton looked at the sophistries of the heart with a mix of pop psychology and learning that made his novel sing like a Cosmo article ghost-written by Descartes.
From Time Magazine Archive
After plastering him with sickening sophistries as to his "sweetest recompense," it gives the utterly unnecessary monition, "March! no fatal repose, there are still laurels to gather"!
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
