Definitions

fallacious

[fuh-ley-shuhs] / fəˈleɪ ʃəs /

ADJECTIVE

false, wrong

Synonyms

WEAK

beguiling deceiving deceptive deluding delusive delusory erroneous fictitious fishy fraudulent illogical illusory incorrect invalid irrational mad misleading mistaken off phony reasonless sophistic sophistical spurious unfounded ungrounded unreal unreasonable unreasoned unsound untrue way-off

Antonyms

WEAK

correct real true truthful

Example Sentences

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Yet with a pleasing sorcery could charm Pain, for a while, or anguish; and excite Fallacious Hope, or arm the obdurate breast With stubborn Patience, as with triple steel.

From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Hume, David

Fallacious hope which daily truths deride— For you, alas! have wept and Garrick died.

From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray

Fallacious hypotheses A scientific mental method is more sanitary than the use of drugs, and such a mental method produces perma- 79:9 nent health.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker

Fallacious proofs of this proposition have been published by many writers, including myself, but up to the present no valid proof has been discovered.

From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Russell, Bertrand

Fallacious hopes of coming “posts,” averted for a time my coming wretchedness—three weeks, and not a line!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 by Various

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