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
"Professor Coin's" financial sophistries were made to defeat and convince all-comers.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was plain wool and flax which they spun and wove thus innocently, nor suspected the web of sophistries that was to be twisted and coiled about the countries' liberties from a coming rival.
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
