Thesaurus / sophistry
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In contrast, Justice Breyer—even when you disagree with him—treats his reader as democratic equals who deserve an actual justification, not just high-handed sophistry.
WHAT THE SUPREME COURT LOSES WITH JUSTICE BREYER'S RETIREMENTAZIZ HUQJUNE 30, 2022TIMEThough procedural sophistry, Gorsuch and the other justices who joined his opinion engineered the outcome Texas wanted.
DON’T BE FOOLED: THE SUPREME COURT’S TEXAS ABORTION DECISION IS A BIG DEFEAT FOR ROE V. WADEIAN MILLHISERDECEMBER 10, 2021VOXUnlike some of the other arguments for the filibuster, this is a valid point, not mere sophistry.
THE DEFINITIVE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTEREZRA KLEINOCTOBER 1, 2020VOXIn calmer moments his mind would doubtless have pierced the cheap sophistry of the Count, and discarded it.
THE EVERLASTING ARMSJOSEPH HOCKINGThey were polished men of society; not profound nor religious, but very brilliant as talkers, and very ready in wit and sophistry.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDI have no sophistry to shift my reasons with; but the truth I trust I have, which needs no painted colours to set her forth.
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXEThat there is “sophistry,” on one side or other, is certain; but now it matters not on which.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELLIt is but a mere contention—a bone, as the Persian proverb says, thrown to two dogs, a palpable piece of sophistry.
ISLAM HER MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUEARTHUR GLYN LEONARDWe may seek to escape their teaching by reasonings touching the good which is wrought out of all evil; but it is vain sophistry.
THE STONES OF VENICE, VOLUME III (OF 3)JOHN RUSKINFiend I must have been, with such sophistry to endeavor to poison that sanctuary of holy thought and tender love.
THE INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY, VOLUME 3, NO. 1, APRIL, 1851VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SOPHISTRY
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- flaw
- heresy
- illogicality
- inconsistency
- inexactness
- invalidity
- misapprehension
- miscalculation
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