How to Use sophistry in a Sentence

sophistry

noun

• Giving up on the truth, then as now, means that we’re left with nothing but sophistry.
  — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• This ruling is pure sophistry that defies common sense.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2017
• Like pretty much everything Hof says, the hard line between what is science and what is sophistry is slippery.
  — Rachel Sugar, Bon Appétit, 28 Oct. 2019
• Some complain soccer is a chintzy distraction from the sophistry of our ruling classes.
  — Sean Williams, The New Republic, 10 July 2018
• The explanation is that the opponents of the law are blinded by a sort of opportunistic sophistry.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2020
• No doubt the sophistries of elite Charlestonians, so thoroughly intertwined with the defense of Jim Crow, were becoming clear to Waring as well.
  — Joseph Crespino, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• The guys, in the case of Joan, are formidable opponents: a king, an archbishop and a selection of the power elite of medieval France and England whose weapons are religion and sophistry.
  — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• After such smug sophistry, Stevenson and McMillan do a brotherly fist bump that Cresson clumsily frames behind a pitcher of water.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
• There is an option beyond budgetary sophistry, however.
  — Rebecca M. Kysar, Slate Magazine, 1 June 2017
• There was an irresistible force of logic, a clinching power of argument, and a manly disregard of everything like sophistry...
  — John J. Miller, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• Notice FDR’s painstaking enumeration of the elements of his program, and his puncturing of his opponents’ sophistry.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• The central irony of U2’s career might be that, having become sophisticated critics of media sophistry, the band simplified its outlook just before 9/11.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• The lawsuit is an exercise in legal sophistry with potentially grave consequences.
  — Jon Healey, Star Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
• To pretend otherwise is dangerous, even deadly, sophistry.
  — Jack Dunphy, National Review, 1 June 2021
• And blunt is the racial preference, the explicit segregation, the insulting assumption-making and the overall intellectual sophistry that is anti-racist ideology in action.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024