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

“Everything would be taken to be shredded in due course. … The document was taken when I was not there and leaked out of context, helping to fuel fallacious narratives against me.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2023

As Bunny rattled on he would sit smoking with deep, resolute drags, pretending not to understand Bun’s fallacious Italian.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt