sophistry in English

noun
1
the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
But Keynes smoothed over the harsh Marxist anti-individualism with artful sophistry and clever rhetoric into something salable to Americans.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "sophistry" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "sophistry", or refer to the context using the word "sophistry" in the English Dictionary.

1. Sophistry cannot alter history.

2. His argument savo ( u ) red of sophistry.

3. No one can be persuaded by sophistry.

4. I wasn't taken in by his sophistry.

5. Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy.

6. [ formal , disapproval ] Synonyms: sophistry , chicanery , equivocation , speciousness More Synonyms of Casuistry

7. They have been repelled by the apparent sophistry of parts of his essay on " Civil Disobedience ".

8. The terms "sophist" and "sophistry" have taken on derogatory connotations in modern times.

9. 22 The terms "sophist" and "sophistry" have taken on derogatory connotations in modern times.

10. Synonyms for Amphiboly include equivocation, dissimulation, deception, duplicity, fallacy, misrepresentation, sophistry, spuriousness, amphibology and deceit

11. Dialect, oriental or occidental, as it came into being, was well nigh inseparable with sophistry.

12. People are easily misled by false appearances - the same outward appearances of dialectics and sophistry.

13. Beijing is known abuse unconvinced, let bygones to sophistry, "the South's natural environment Haoma climate."

14. No amount of sophistry can justify one country's intervention in the internal affairs of another country.

15. Casuistry definition, specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, especially in questions of morality; fallacious or dishonest application of general principles; sophistry

16. 11 Dialect, oriental or occidental, as it came into being, was well nigh inseparable with sophistry.

17. As he had a weak case and could not defend himself , he had to resort to sophistry.

18. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and Chicanery to win the job

19. Coining the term "Anecdata" is a perspicuous move, one that captures the confusing, convoluted sophistry employed by the Elect

20. When we lay down “the weapons of [our] rebellion” (Alma 23:7), we become “agents unto [ourselves]” (D&C 58:28), no longer blinded by the sophistry of Satan or deafened by the discordant noise of the secular world.

21. To Assuage her misery she betook herself to study and the composition of essays and poetry.; No sophistry I could summon was sufficient to Assuage the poignancy of this sentiment.; He knew the voice of birds, how fires to mitigate, Assuage and quench; sorrows to allay

22. Mencken said politics had become an “endless saturnalia of bunk, of bluff, of stupidity, of insincerity, of false virtue, of nonsense, of pretense, of sophistry, of paralogy, of Bamboozlement, of actorial posturing, of strident wind music, of empty words—even, at times, of down-right fraud.”

23. ‘And, it does so without engaging in sophistry, for the true horror writer is consumed by a Cacoethes to engage his moral imagination, to reveal a sliver of the transcendent.’ ‘We began as two guys with a Cacoethes for creating simple, effective and sustainable solutions that will help to save environment, people and business.’