[ 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
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How To Use fallacious In A Sentence

  • And because you were not going rock again, you assumed, fallaciously, that I would not go paper again, which, to your mind, left me with rock or scissors. Parents Behaving Badly
  • Australia coasted to victory in the first Test at Lord's but it was fallacious.
  • In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife.
  • Chen's pictures illustrate the fallacious relationship between collective memory and individual memory.
  • What could be the most outstanding in Dr. Sayegh's introduction is the Biblical concept of the "Exodus" that spread throughout more than thirty centuries coupling this expression of Jewish history from one side and Biblical myths on the other, considering this so-called fallacious "Exodus" in its foundations, sources, meaning stands ashamed in front another factual, actual and felt exodus in millions of proofs, which is the exodus of three quarters of a million Palestinian Arabs forcefully and savagely uprooted by the force of arms and Zionist terror. Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • The slander about John Kerry's Purple Hearts and courage in command is fallacious at best and spuriously shameful. Easter Lemming Liberal News
  • SIR - The campaign to save and restore the Odeon has been widely supported, but despite this, Bradford Centre Regeneration has advanced fallacious arguments that the scheme would prove too costly.
  • It's exhausting for many of us to have to keep explaining the fallaciousness of this suggestion -- that Edwards is culpable of "something" because he didn't have the good sense to know a $400 dollar hair cut would land him in the doghouse. New York Times' Leslie Wayne Continues Twisted Jihad Against Edwards
  • fallacious reasoning
  • The fallacious translation of trope into signifier is symptomatically reiterated later in the chapter in the form of an atypical terminological mistake. Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
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