Fallacious - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |fəˈleɪʃəs|  American pronunciation of the word fallacious
Brit.  |fəˈleɪʃəs|  British pronunciation of the word fallacious

adjective

- containing or based on a fallacy (syn: unsound)
fallacious reasoning
- intended to deceive (syn: deceitful, fraudulent)
fallacious testimony
- based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
fallacious hope

Extra examples

...it's fallacious to say that something must exist because science hasn't proven its nonexistence...

...consumers who harbor the fallacious belief that credit-card spending will never catch up with them...

Such an argument is misleading, if not wholly fallacious.

The abstraction is so rarefied as to become fallacious.

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