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
I can't tolerate any more of my sophistries about spirit, mind, and breath.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus giving himself the opportunity of changing his mind, for there always remain in the conscience some of those sophistries which we pour into it ourselves.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert
