sophistry
noun
a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
sophistries
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pluralof sophistry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
In her brisk, garrulous and charming fashion, Novelist Gallie has created a dogged Welsh math teacher who keeps his village innocence amid the lean fleshpots and fat sophistries of an English university.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toby attempted to renew his sophistries, at Joe's succeeding visits; but felt, at length, thoroughly subdued under the heartfelt and persevering enthusiasm of a mere boy.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Thomas Cooper
