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Meanings of sophism in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sophistication"
Examples for "sophistication"
1
But it didn't need excessive sophistication to work, just a secure mounting.
2
The attacks, they say, have been increasing in both sophistication and intensity.
3
This was a natural consequence of the long sophistication of my feelings.
4
These types of devices kept shrinking in size and increasing in sophistication.
5
Being able to access BBC and ITV signalled the apex of sophistication.
1
All sophistry falls to the ground in the presence of this argument.
2
She was not analytical; there was no sophistry in her young heart.
3
The brisk colloquial vocabulary fits admirably the brilliant sophistry of the argument.
4
It is odious sophistry, unworthy of the age in which we live.
5
He was bold, and never dealt in sophistry, but in plain speech.
Usage of sophism in English
1
No sophism of political economy is more widely spread than the foregoing.
2
This sophism has found its way into several books on penal legislation.
3
The wretched sophism was silenced by the execrations of the House of Commons.
4
He is the reputed author of the famous sophism against motion.
5
It is the sad consequence, and the rest is only sophism.
6
You can't pull my leg with an old sophism with whiskers on it.
7
And he formulated this decision with the reassuring sophism: One loves but once!
8
Self-preservation is not theft; let us ease our conscience with this sophism... Ha!
9
The preceding passage seems to rest on a similar sophism.
10
But with a word he obliterated the sophism-andwith a glance repressed the badinage.
11
This is an obvious sophism, which will deceive no one.
12
This childishness was not the sophism of my reason; it was that of my indolence.
13
But every step of this sophism is in error.
14
To this the Emperor consented, seeking to mask the unscrupulous deed by a pitiful sophism.
15
Seeing me foiled, Charley advanced with the doubtful aid of a sophism to help me.
16
Hurl some idle sophism at a woman of intelligence.
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Portuguese
Sophism through the time
Sophism across language varieties
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