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Definition of sophistry in English: sophistrynounPlural sophistries ˈsɒfɪstriˈsɑfəstri mass noun1The use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving. trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry Example sentencesExamples - It must be confessed that there is an air of sophistry about this argument - and I certainly have doubts about its cogency.
- The Guardian's argumentation is pure sophistry.
- How you tried to deceive us with smug sophistry?
- Badiou insists that philosophy is the discipline concerned with truth, and that any effort to detract philosophy from this concern is tantamount to sophistry.
- But Keynes smoothed over the harsh Marxist anti-individualism with artful sophistry and clever rhetoric into something salable to Americans.
Synonyms trickery, deviousness, deceit, deception, dishonesty, cheating, duplicity, guile, cunning, artfulness, wiliness, craft, craftiness, evasion, slyness, chicanery, intrigue, subterfuge, strategy, bluff, pretence - 1.1count noun A fallacious argument.
Example sentencesExamples - I think you've been doing it so long you don't even recognize anymore that they're nothing but sophistries.
- When you bombard them with sophistries, wrong messages and show them only dead-ends, that is where you finally reach.
- There are then, several sophistries involved in abdicating our positions to cultural corruption.
- Most lawyers, of course, don't internalise their sophistries.
- During his literal captivity as a prisoner of war in Kentucky, he becomes figuratively captivated by her sophistries, which are explicitly coded as American.
Synonyms specious reasoning, the use of fallacious arguments, sophism, casuistry, quibbling, equivocation, fallaciousness fallacious argument, sophism, fallacy, quibble Logic paralogism
Definition of sophistry in US English: sophistrynounˈsɑfəstriˈsäfəstrē 1The use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving. trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry Example sentencesExamples - Badiou insists that philosophy is the discipline concerned with truth, and that any effort to detract philosophy from this concern is tantamount to sophistry.
- The Guardian's argumentation is pure sophistry.
- It must be confessed that there is an air of sophistry about this argument - and I certainly have doubts about its cogency.
- How you tried to deceive us with smug sophistry?
- But Keynes smoothed over the harsh Marxist anti-individualism with artful sophistry and clever rhetoric into something salable to Americans.
Synonyms trickery, deviousness, deceit, deception, dishonesty, cheating, duplicity, guile, cunning, artfulness, wiliness, craft, craftiness, evasion, slyness, chicanery, intrigue, subterfuge, strategy, bluff, pretence - 1.1 A fallacious argument.
Example sentencesExamples - There are then, several sophistries involved in abdicating our positions to cultural corruption.
- Most lawyers, of course, don't internalise their sophistries.
- When you bombard them with sophistries, wrong messages and show them only dead-ends, that is where you finally reach.
- I think you've been doing it so long you don't even recognize anymore that they're nothing but sophistries.
- During his literal captivity as a prisoner of war in Kentucky, he becomes figuratively captivated by her sophistries, which are explicitly coded as American.
Synonyms specious reasoning, the use of fallacious arguments, sophism, casuistry, quibbling, equivocation, fallaciousness fallacious argument, sophism, fallacy, quibble
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