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单词 fallacious
释义 fal·la·cious
\fəˈlāshəs\ adjective
Etymology: Middle French fallacieux, from Latin fallaciosus, from fallacia + -osus -ous
1. : embodying or presenting a fallacy
 < the demand was plausible, but the more I thought upon it the more … fallacious … it seemed — A.D.White >
 < some fallacious conclusions regarding drugs and crime — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel >
 < read him a second time in order that I might state … articulately the points at which I thought he became fallacious — O.W.Holmes †1935 >
2. : deceptive, misleading, delusive, disappointing
 < the fallacious hope that the propriety of going to bed may at any moment dawn upon the paternal mind — W.L.Alden >
 < a region … where … the fallacious colocynth, the wild melon, scatters its globes of bitter gold — Norman Douglas >
fal·la·cious·ly adverb
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