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
• 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 this is based on the fallacious notion that depletion of the resource means ever-higher prices.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• 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
• But Democrats said that, too, was fallacious, noting that Mr. Trump allowed the aid to be delivered only after he had been briefed about the whistle-blower complaint.
  — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Problem is, the water ice on Pluto is mixed up with ices of methane, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide—which kind of hides the actual H2O. The image to the left shows this fallacious five o’clock shadow of water ice.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2016
• 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
• Both were grounded on a fallacious interpretation of due process.
  — Matthew J. Franck, National Review, 12 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The sense that this mandate imposed no cost was fallacious: the costs were hidden but effectively passed on to consumers in higher auto prices or shareholders in lower dividends.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• The annals of science brim with fallacious orthodoxies.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
• Cannabis as a gateway drug seems to be a hypothesis based on simplistic and fallacious logical processes.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• Followers of QAnon also regularly show up at events and successfully spread new fallacious claims.
  — New York Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Yet this argument is not only improperly self-serving but also fallacious.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Sheriffs in other states have also been part of efforts to prove a fallacious conspiracy theory that former President Donald J. Trump actually won the 2020 election.
  — Cole Louison, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Better engagement beyond the capital might have exposed such fallacious assumptions.
  — John Campbell, Quartz Africa, 3 Dec. 2020
• Fact-checking labels are having little effect on curbing people’s enthusiasm for fallacious Facebook posts by President Donald Trump.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• This word suggested a fallacious assumption: Poverty persisted only because of hitherto weak government resolve regarding the essence of war — marshalling material resources.
  — George Will, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 July 2017
• The thinking that dominates the institution is fundamentally fallacious.
  — Steve Forbes, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024