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[ US /fəˈɫeɪʃəs/ ]
[ UK /fælˈe‍ɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. containing or based on a fallacy
    fallacious reasoning
    an unsound argument
  2. based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
    fallacious hope
  3. intended to deceive
    fallacious testimony
    a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes
    deceitful advertising
    smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice

How To Use fallacious In A Sentence

  • Manning turned slowly, a fallacious smile on his lips, his eyes hard. CORMORANT
  • He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
  • The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself. A Fine-Tuned Multiverse
  • Too many commentators opt much too quickly for an ascription of confusion in order fallaciously to 'solve' a problem in textual interpretation.
  • On volokh.com, slippery slope arguments are not only not fallacious, but also carry is an irrebuttable presumption oftruth. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Is the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Unconstitutional?”
  • I have been saying this for a while now, specifically in the context of Pakistan, that instead of trying to present a ‘moderate’ picture of Islam as is the fashion and which is fallacious by the way, we must in explicit terms denounce Islam. Women Erased in Israel, Flogged in Pakistan and Restricted in Afghanistan - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Mature creation is sometimes inappropriately referred to as "appearance of age"; however the latter term fallaciously implies that age can be seen or otherwise empirically measured. Answers in Genesis Articles
  • a word fallaciously, which expresseth the contrary; as though I intended another knowledge of Christ than what is declared in the gospel. Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
  • I can testify to the complete fallaciousness of the “98%” statement as I sit here on the lower end of a dark continent. From the moderated comments | clusterflock
  • Surely, no scientist who considers what motion is can admit such a fallacious statement, for motion is simply "position in space changing;" it is a phenomenon, the result of the application of entitative force to a body. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
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