NOUN
- an argument that ignores all unfavorable evidence
- (law) a pleading that alleges new facts in avoidance of the opposing allegations
How To Use special pleading In A Sentence
- You can only guess at the special pleading behind closed doors that works away at her defences. Times, Sunday Times
- The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
- The forest is being rubbed out by special pleading, arm-twisting and back-scratching corruption. Times, Sunday Times
- The arguing tactic is called "special pleading," and it's a dirty rhetorical trick indeed! Boing Boing
- A novelist and playwright himself, this might seem like the special pleading of a thin-skinned but hard-necked writer who fears that his own literary endeavours will never stand up to serious appraisal.
- The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
- The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
- There has clearly been an element of special pleading here, but it is not actually a plea to ministers for more cash, it is just a bald and factual statement of the problems.
- The Secretary of State has given in to special pleading.
- But special pleading by companies and ad-hoc intervention by governments are not the answer. Times, Sunday Times
