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

A leading part was here played by the sophistic distinction between nomos and physis, Law and Nature, i.e. that which is based on human convention, and that which is founded on the nature of things.

From Atheism in Pagan Antiquity by Andersen, Ingeborg