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Recent Examples of fallacious The same economists who believe in the same fallacious economic notions? John Tamny, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025 Lawyers who argued for his ouster on behalf of the National Assembly said the claims by Mr. Yoon were fallacious. Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2025 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 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 See All Example Sentences for fallacious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fallacious
Adjective
  • We're protected from unreasonable searches and seizures.
    Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This is a crude and unreasonable attempt to make the discussion into an all-or-nothing affair.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Overpayments can occur for many reasons, the agency said, including incorrect wage reporting, failure to meet work requirements or providing false or misleading information.
    Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In court, government lawyers frequently made false or misleading claims about the men’s whereabouts.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Losing Fed independence is like giving free rein to emotional, irrational decision making.
    Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Agencies would review requests, balancing innovation against risks such as economic harm or deceptive practices.
    Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There will be a temptation because of his height to draw parallels with Moyes’ use of Marouane Fellaini and Soucek, two key pillars of his Everton and West Ham sides, but where Rohl is concerned, his size can be deceptive.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • Representatives for James have called the fraud claims made against her politically motivated and false.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2025
  • On the next play, Taylor was called for a false-start penalty.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Dumas’ injunction states that any decisions made in meetings with Weatherington claiming the chair seat are illegitimate.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Putin asked, reiterating a common Russian argument that their country sees the Ukrainian leader as illegitimate.
    Tara Suter, The Hill, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In each case, the actual right to your body is deferred to some third party, either the paternalists, the hypothetical children, or unreasoned authority.
    Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2011

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“Fallacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fallacious. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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