sophistry

How To Use sophistry In A Sentence

• No ingenious sophistry can overthrow this fact of experience.
• Patriotism is a virtue, but over the interpretation of any truth, it will become'sophistry.
• The most brazen sophistry could not dignify by the name of "loan" the coin contemptuously flung to a beach-comber who slept on the bare boards of the public market. Cabbages and Kings
• No sophistry and no syllogisms can conjure away this inevitable consequence of inflation.
• I have got what you call morbid just in consequence of the sophistry by which I persuaded myself that wrong could be right. Ruth
• 'And do you call it fair to persecute, in this way, at the instigation of a proud aristocrat (he had already learned this slang sophistry), a young man, who is almost a stranger among you?' Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• I'm hoping it's not sophistry to argue that this anxiety is the point. Blake & Virtuality: An Exchange
• However, it is sheer sophistry, that is, “subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation,” of which Senator Kerry should be ashamed John Kerry, Excommunicated?
• How you tried to deceive us with smug sophistry?
• This miserable sophistry, which disregards not only epistemology but also the intuitive perception that informs all daily intercourse, is sometimes merely formular, yet I have known men who have so prostituted their intelligence that they believe it.' Is it foolish to question whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch?