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Sophistical

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry.
  2. 2
    Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.

    "This is, we believe, a fair summary of Mr. Lamb's doctrine. We are sure that we do not wish to represent him unfairly. […] But we must plainly say that his argument, though ingenious, is altogether sophistical."

Adjective
  1. 1
    plausible but misleading wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English sophistical, sophisticale, sophisticall, from Anglo-Latin sophisticālis, equivalent to sophist + -ical.

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