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Definition of Fallacious

1. Adjective. Containing or based on a fallacy. "An unsound argument"

2. Adjective. Intended to deceive. "A fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

3. Adjective. Based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information. "Fallacious hope"

Definition of Fallacious

1. a. Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning.

Definition of Fallacious

1. Adjective. Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken. ¹

2. Adjective. Deceptive or misleading. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fallacious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fallacious

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fall upon fall webworm fall wind fall winds fallacies fallacious (current term) fallaciously fallaciousness fallacy fallacy fallacies

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Literary usage of Fallacious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"Appeal to Authority, in what cases fallacious.' The case in which reference to authority is open to the imputation of fallacy, is where, in the course of a ..."

2. Elements of Political Science by Stephen Leacock (1906)
"CHAPTER II ORIGIN OF THE STATE; fallacious THEORIES 1. ... To examine and reject a fallacious hypothesis is often a means of arriving at the truth. ..."

3. The Infallibility of the Church: A Course of Lectures Delivered in the by George Salmon (1890)
"The second rule of faith which Milner undertakes to show to be fallacious is the Bible: at least if each man is allowed to interpret it for himself. ..."

4. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the Most Remote by Hugh Murray (1832)
"A more extensive acquaintance has proved this impression to be extremely fallacious; the opulence being confined to the princes and high officers, ..."

5. The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse: From the Best Writers by Lindley Murray (1836)
"... all 1 Sure peace is his : a solid life estrang'd To disappointment and fallacious hope. \\hen heaven descends in showers; or bends the bough In herbs ..."

6. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"His fallacious prophecies about Pitt's India Bill. Feb. 16. 1784. Feb. 18. 1784. His motion to stop the supplies. When Mr. Pitt's India Bill was introduced, ..."

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