fallacious
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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 enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood.
From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman
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
Fallacious sign of hope! for, close behind, Dark shades of coming woe were seen combined.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
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
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