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or casuistical
as in sophistical
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Adjective
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Kennedy’s skill at flooding his audiences with specious claims that sound logical or highbrow was on full display during his 2023 interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan.—
Benjamin Mazer,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2025 -
The specious comparison of women’s beach volleyball to football is not how a proper Title IX analysis works.—
Kiara Alfonseca,
ABC News,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
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But hard evidence in both our nation’s history and our present shows that this reasoning is fallacious.—
Ana Raquel Minian,
TIME,
30 May 2024
Adjective
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In arguments that frequently ridiculed the government’s case as weak and illogical, Cotter emphasized that there is a hard line between lobbying and bribery.—
Ray Long,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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Second, this rationale for regulation proved to be illogical and fatuous as conceded by U.S. Courts and the Federal Communications Commission in the decades since.—
Carine Harb,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The ban is an irrational and prejudicial attack on service members who have risked their lives to serve their country.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
18 Feb. 2025
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The emotional, messy, unquantifiable part of us — that’s not a dumber or more irrational part.—
Sigal Samuel,
Vox,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Not everything needs to open with jump scares and random inserts of loud incoherent chaos.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Jan. 2025
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Read Article > Feb 3 Eric Levitz Donald Trump has incoherent and unhinged beliefs about trade policy.—
Vox Staff,
Vox,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Casuistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casuistic. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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