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Meanings of sophistical in English

Plausible but misleading.

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Examples for "sophistic"
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For obvious reasons my answer was more sophistic than honest.
Julian
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Would you want every one to accept that sophistic rot?
The Beautiful and Damned
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No statement is too sophistic, no idea too silly.
The Irish Times
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The distinction may be subtle to the point of seeming sophistic, but it is nevertheless valid.
The book of disquiet
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Le Bon, in his sophistic volume on the "Psychology of Peoples," advocates it strenuously.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
Usage of sophistical in English
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What you say about the quarrel in the United States is sophistical.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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He was the least superstitious and also the least sophistical of men.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
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No; but studied exclusion from notice, or sophistical evasions and insulting vituperation.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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Your objection is, I think, a mere sophistical evasion of the difficulty.
The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic
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These sophistical confidences of his were nothing but Rousseau at second hand.
Poor Miss Finch
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She followed him through all his sophistical reasonings with a keener reason.
Lady Byron Vindicated / A history of the Byron controversy from ...
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Your sophistical exposition of the words of our princess is entirely thrown away.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
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He had plied the beadle's wife with sophistical reasoning and subtlety.
Poor Relations
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But we must plainly say that his argument, though ingenious, is altogether sophistical.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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STRANGER: Then why has the sophistical art such a mysterious power?
Sophist
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And it was taken under the sophistical plea that it belonged to the nation.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09: European Statesmen
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He never made a sophistical argument in his life, and never could make one.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
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That this may appear empty and sophistical well I know.
Tragic Sense Of Life
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This reasoning may seem to many persons mere casuistry, mere sophistical juggling with words.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
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They are like the rest, clever, wicked, sophistical, and immoral.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1
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It is not necessary to repeat Reginald's explanation, as it was shallow and sophistical.
Five Hundred Dollars; or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret
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