sophistry

How To Use sophistry In A Sentence

• Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy.
• Thoughts on "philosophy otherwise known as sophistry [philosophy] otherwise known as sophistry
• Several in company checked him from time to time for his bitter reflections instead of arguments, and wished him, if he could to answer my arguments, which he called sophistry, assuring him that until he did, they must receive my opinion and arguments as scriptural and sound reasoning. Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
• Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy.
• That some scientists confuse the unprovable with the nonexistent does not justify the deliberate attempt of IDists to substitute sophistry for science in our public schools.
• The arm-waving sophistry that tries to escape this fact just makes evolution look bad — like whiny wishy-washery. 2006 February - Telic Thoughts
• This fact of currency union renders all the sophistry of the Chancellor's five tests otiose.
• No amount of sophistry can justify one country's intervention in the internal affairs of another country.
• It must be confessed that there is an air of sophistry about this argument - and I certainly have doubts about its cogency.
• What's more, the obvious mendacity of the statement renders the argument faulty and therefore a clear case of sophistry.