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fallacious
Synonyms and Antonyms of fallacious
- it's fallacious to say that something must exist because science hasn't proven its nonexistence
eristic (also eristical), misleading, sophistic (or sophistical), specious
half-baked, ill-advised, misguided, unconsidered, unreasoned
absurd, asinine, foolish, meaningless, nonsensical, preposterous, reasonless, senseless, silly
Kafkaesque, odd, peculiar, strange, surreal, unusual, weird
insane, mad, nutty, wacky (also whacky)
- consumers who harbor the fallacious belief that credit-card spending will never catch up with them
artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wily
bewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzling
ambidextrous, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful
bogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, jive [slang], phony (also phoney), sham, spurious
insidious, perfidious, treacherous
ambiguous, circuitous, equivocal, evasive
artificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced
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