sophistic
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But perhaps its sophistic victim-blaming was better left unsaid.
From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2019
The presentation quickly collapses under Steve Bannon’s sophistic questioning.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 16, 2018
The characters are treated with odd touches of realism and their sophistic arguments are stingingly psychologized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
For sheer sophistic jabberwocky and an excruciating reciprocity of cleverness Buckley's ideal Firing Line partner would be Marshall McLuhan.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, there is a tradition that he maintained that “according to nature” there was only one god, but “according to the law” several—a purely sophistic view.
From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Ingeborg Andersen
