Fallacious (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope".
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Meaning 2
Intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes".
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Meaning 3
Containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument".
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Examples
- The politician's argument that the economy would improve simply because he said so was fallacious and lacked any real evidence.
- The detective realized that the suspect's alibi was fallacious and that he had been lying about his whereabouts.
- The philosopher's theory was based on a fallacious assumption that humans are inherently selfish, which many experts disputed.
- The advertisement's claim that the product would cure any illness was fallacious and had been debunked by numerous scientific studies.
- The student's essay was marked down for containing fallacious arguments and a lack of credible sources to support her claims.