How to Use fallacious in a Sentence

fallacious

adjective

• Facts and reason have to square off against the fanciful and the fallacious.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 14 June 2017
• So my guess is that that ruling will be in favor of the aggrieved party in a fallacious ad.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 28 Jan. 2020
• But this is based on the fallacious notion that depletion of the resource means ever-higher prices.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• But hard evidence in both our nation’s history and our present shows that this reasoning is fallacious.
  — Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
• Both were grounded on a fallacious interpretation of due process.
  — Matthew J. Franck, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
• The thought that momentum carries over from game to game in the Stanley Cup playoffs is fallacious.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 7 May 2017
• But everyone's clinging to the fallacious belief that science just needs to be explained better and then people will change their minds.
  — Rebecca Onion, Slate Magazine, 19 Apr. 2017
• Cannabis as a gateway drug seems to be a hypothesis based on simplistic and fallacious logical processes.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Yet this argument is not only improperly self-serving but also fallacious.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• This is such a fallacious argument and its presentation as acceptable is abhorrent to our standards of morality.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The choice, the show asserted, feels less like a rational Court judgment and more like a fallacious argument that a fringe Facebook group might circulate as fact.
  — Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 8 May 2022
• Followers of QAnon also regularly show up at events and successfully spread new fallacious claims.
  — New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• And why not seek the truth, to give order and organization to a chaotic and fallacious narrative and investigative material?
  — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
• Better engagement beyond the capital might have exposed such fallacious assumptions.
  — John Campbell, Quartz Africa, 3 Dec. 2020
• Unfortunately, there’s a lot of contradicting and fallacious information floating around out there about how distance runners should and shouldn’t fuel to run fast.
  — Outside Online, 12 Oct. 2020
• Commentators have relied on fallacious allusions to the developing world to explain a problem unique to the United States.
  — Laura Weiss, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2021
• Please keep all of this mind the next time some self-serious economist starts drooling about output gaps, overheating, and other fallacious notions so popular inside the economics profession.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
• The risks associated with drawing a potentially fallacious straight-line projection into the future notwithstanding, the trend is real, and no one can afford to ignore it.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 Feb. 2023
• Ads that deploy fallacious reasoning and misrepresent the purpose of studies prey on the hopes and fears of patients, potentially subverting the integrity of informed consent.
  — Jonathan Kimmelman, STAT, 25 Apr. 2018
• Defenders of Israel believe that designation is fallacious and dangerous.
  — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026
• Thank goodness that investment bankers are constantly undoing the fallacious assumptions of an economic profession married to the belief that inflation is caused by too much investment.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 9 May 2021
• However, experts in the mathematics of probability have identified the inference from the fine-tuning to the multiverse as an instance of fallacious reasoning.
  — Philip Goff, Scientific American, 10 Jan. 2021
• The argument is not totally fallacious, as some castes are almost certainly recent constructions and interpretations, with fictive origin narratives.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2013
• The thinking that dominates the institution is fundamentally fallacious.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• One of the more shallow and fallacious claims Padilla makes in the Times piece is that classicists and the field of classics share responsibility for the Capitol riot that took place on January 6th.
  — Andre M. Archie, National Review, 27 Feb. 2021
• That will in turn spread on social media, which often plays a disproportional role in boosting these disinformation efforts by providing nearly unlimited platforms for unfiltered content and fallacious and deceptive claims.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
• One of my interests in skepticism and critical thinking has been the similarity in the fallacious arguments, approach to data, and general behavior of those who are--to put it generously--not so skeptical or scientific in their approach to life.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2011