fallacious

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  1. adjective Containing or based on a fallacy: a fallacious assumption.
  2. adjective Tending to mislead; deceptive: fallacious testimony.

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  • Such was the notion: it was fallacious, as will appear later on; but it appealed strongly to the French imagination as providing an infallible means of humbling the traditional foe. —  The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2)
  • Prove my position fallacious, and not predicated on principles of eternal right, and they may be blown to the four winds of heaven. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • A great deal of the argumentation that I had.been told to accept was obviously fallacious, and I read whatever books I could find that seemed to offer a firmer foundation for mathematical beliefs. —  My Philosophical Development
  • The authorities cited by M. Otto in support of his assertion are generally fallacious, and for the most part given without particular specification. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
  • This demand was plausible, but the more I thought upon it the more illogical, fallacious, and injurious it seemed; and, in spite of some hard knocks in consequence, I have continued to dissent from it, and feel that events have justified me Since this view of mine largely influenced the plan of the university, this is perhaps as good a place as any to sketch its development. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1
 

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  1. = French fallacieux, from Late Latin fallaciosus, deceptive, from fallacia, deception: see fallacy.
 

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