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Fallacious meaning

  1. Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
  2. Deceptive or misleading.

Using Fallacious

  • The main meaning on this page is: Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken. | Deceptive or misleading.
  • Useful related words include: unsound, invalid, deceitful, fraudulent.
  • In the example corpus, fallacious often appears in combinations such as: fallacious and, is fallacious, as fallacious.

Context around Fallacious

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 9 middle, 10 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Fallacious

  • In this selection, "fallacious" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, outright, chyawanprash, appear, allegations, dangerous and two stand out and add context to how "fallacious" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include media as fallacious and cheap and and detecting fallacious or fraudulent. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "fallacious" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with fallacious

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

More ludicrous was his use of fallacious reasons to bolster his stand. (12 words)

It said the campaign is not factual and relies on “outright fallacious allegations”. (13 words)

He was never optimistic about the President’s case and was not fooled by fallacious beliefs. (16 words)

If Joe answers Jim, saying "That may be true for you, but it is not true for me," he has given an answer which is fallacious as well as being somewhat meaningless in the context of Jim's original statement. (40 words)

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied any plan by the state governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke to quit the party, dismissing the rumour being spread on social media as fallacious and cheap lies. (38 words)

The fact that hundreds of thousands of girls and women were killed and millions of others were widowed or orphaned in America’s protracted “War on Terror” doesn’t seem to impede this fallacious logic in any way. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

It said the campaign is not factual and relies on “outright fallacious allegations”.

The Osun state chapter of the described the rumour being spread on social media as fallacious and cheap lies.

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied any plan by the state governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke to quit the party, dismissing the rumour being spread on social media as fallacious and cheap lies.

When Bradley presents you with this kind of fallacious, dangerous, ridiculous crap, tell him you don't swallow it.

Dabur alleged that while promoting Patanjali Special Chyawanprash, fallacious and deliberate imputations were made, which defamed its product Dabur Chyawanprash — a market leader with a share of more than 60 per cent.

If Asean chooses to stay quiet when similar incidents reoccur or to be vocal only when the red line is crossed, any repeat of the rhetoric of Asean centrality could appear fallacious, if not disingenuous.

The incumbent has been seeking to fraudulently secure a false and fallacious two thirds majority in parliament.

The rights group said the President should prove naysayers wrong by dismissing his security heads who have only given Nigerian poor performance and fallacious excuses.

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No matter how fallacious that may have been in previous years, that is most certainly not the case this year.

More ludicrous was his use of fallacious reasons to bolster his stand.

The fact that hundreds of thousands of girls and women were killed and millions of others were widowed or orphaned in America’s protracted “War on Terror” doesn’t seem to impede this fallacious logic in any way.

This questions the old idea that the answer to “fallacious speech” is “more speech” – that we live in a “marketplace of ideas” where the best “information products” will win out.

For the decades to follow, scientists and scholars believed the ancient descriptions of a sacred, inspiring pneuma to be fallacious.

Hence on the pragmatic approach, each case needs to analyzed individually, to determine by the textual evidence whether the argument is fallacious or reasonable.

He was never optimistic about the President’s case and was not fooled by fallacious beliefs.

If Joe answers Jim, saying "That may be true for you, but it is not true for me," he has given an answer which is fallacious as well as being somewhat meaningless in the context of Jim's original statement.

In practice these arguments are often fallacious and rely on the veracity of the supporting premise.

In the Critique Sartre set out to give Marxism a more vigorous intellectual defense than it had received until then; he ended by concluding that Marx's notion of "class" as an objective entity was fallacious.

In The Demon-Haunted World, he presented tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent ones, essentially advocating wide use of critical thinking and the scientific method.

It included material discussed with Mersenne some years before, such as the fallacious nature of the squaring of the circle by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent.

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Common combinations with fallacious

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "fallacious" in a sentence?
An example: "It said the campaign is not factual and relies on “outright fallacious allegations”." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "fallacious" from authentic English texts.
What does "fallacious" mean?
Fallacious means: Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
What are synonyms of "fallacious"?
Common synonyms of "fallacious" include: unsound, invalid, deceitful, fraudulent, dishonest, dishonorable, incorrect, wrong.
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