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or casuistical
as in sophistical
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Adjective
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In any event, the legal complaints against Trump’s response are specious.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
9 June 2025 -
In 2025, that feeling, however specious or temporary, is potent cultural currency.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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There might be a bigger market for these products, and more consumers might be immune to the fallacious argument that they’re overly processed, if more people were persuaded of the ills of factory farming.—
Kenny Torrella,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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The fallacious notion that truth is in the eye of the beholder.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
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All of which is to say, this rebound isn't totally illogical.—
Kelly Evans,
CNBC,
25 June 2025
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This is not a regime worth defending, and recent progressive attempts to link the situation in Iran with the war in Iraq, ostensibly fought over weapons of mass destruction that did not prove to exist at scale, are illogical.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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It’s been reopened in chunks, thanks to the unrelenting optimism and irrational persistence of a corps of downtown residents led by Rodriguez and Rosa Chang.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
16 June 2025
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On the other hand, especially given that the vote was still restricted to only a small minority of propertied men, the rise of party politics itself sharpened the age-old mistrust of popular judgment as irrational and easily swayed—especially by lies.—
Fara Dabhoiwala,
Harpers Magazine,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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His political views — or what are known of them — are contradictory if not incoherent.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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Tom’s latest vehicle for death-defying stunts and — at this point — incoherent technobabble pits him against the AI from Dead Reckoning again.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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“Casuistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casuistic. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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