fallacious

Example Sentences

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For Sermitsiaq editor Masaana, the rhetoric from the US is pushing a fallacious binary choice.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

He argued that the constitutional change had reset the clock to zero, but legal experts in Senegal and abroad dismissed the contention as fallacious.

From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2023

It also took home the big award for worst picture, with the Atlanta Reporter calling it “a showy exercise in exploitation and fallacious storytelling” while reviewer Jorge Rivera Rubio dubbed it “trauma porn.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2023

Cognitive biases, like confirmation bias, play a huge role in supporting such a fallacious thought process to detrimental ends.

From Salon • Oct. 31, 2022

Let me end, then, with a couple of additional bad inferences which are further suggestive of the role that innumeracy—in the guise of fallacious logic—plays in pseudoscience.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos