Meanings of sophistic in English

For obvious reasons my answer was more sophistic than honest.

Would you want every one to accept that sophistic rot?

No statement is too sophistic, no idea too silly.

The distinction may be subtle to the point of seeming sophistic, but it is nevertheless valid.

Le Bon, in his sophistic volume on the "Psychology of Peoples," advocates it strenuously.

The sophistic arguments of Le Gros satisfied them.

However, by the time she reappeared in the sitting-room he had explained himself to himself with sophistic satisfaction.

Tiring: gymnastic:: cookery: medicine:: sophistic: legislation.

There are three sources of error and three species of false philosophy; the sophistic, the empiric and the superstitious.

But what will become of our young gentleman, if he be attacked with the sophistic subtlety of some syllogism?

Thus Basil had spent his schooldays mostly in the practice of sophistic argument, and the delivery of harangues on traditional subjects.

Lack of merit may be so complete, so grotesque, that the composition affords to the sophistic eye a high order of comedy.

The sophistic tyrants of Paris are loud in their declamations against the departed regal tyrants, who in former ages have vexed the world.

Some other personality, compounded of all those ugly, sophistic things that lurk in every human character, seemed to be wrestling with, obscuring the real man.

The Second Sophistic offered wisdom which owed nothing to the Christian revelation in scripture; was its wisdom then worthless?

For obvious reasons my answer was more sophistic than honest.