Sample sentences for FALLACIOUS

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Definition

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typically describing something as mistaken due to incorrect information or belief
sometimes describing something as an intentional lie

fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)

fallacious = false or incorrect

This was small consolation, but Miss Mills wouldn't encourage fallacious hopes.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)

The hospital called the suit "misleading and fallacious."
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

fallacious = not correct (mistaken or intended to deceive)

"Alas," said Edmond, smiling, "these are the treasures the cardinal has left; and the good abbe, seeing in a dream these glittering walls, has indulged in fallacious hopes."
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)

But the mind of man not only refuses to believe this explanation, but plainly says that this method of explanation is fallacious, because in it a weaker phenomenon is taken as the cause of a stronger.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

fallacious = mistaken

I gave up all that ... and my old way of life: That way based upon the fallacious assumption that I, like other men, was visible.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)

such methods for enabling one the more easily to manage subjects are only useful in times of peace, but if war comes this policy proves fallacious.
Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince

fallacious = mistaken

...all appearances to the contrary, such as ... being to his certain knowledge fallacious;
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)

Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm
Pain for a while or anguish, and excite
Fallacious hope, or...
John Milton -- Paradise Lost

fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect belief)

And equally fallacious seems the conceit, that because the so-called whale-bone whales no longer haunt many grounds in former years abounding with them, hence that species also is declining.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)

I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument,
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)

This was small consolation, but Miss Mills wouldn't encourage fallacious hopes.
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
I had allowed myself to be diverted by fallacious evidence; but I recovered and again took hold of the right end.
Leroux, Gaston -- The Mystery of the Yellow Room
This was fallacious, but it was manly, and had a minimum of moral truth.
G. K. Chesterton -- The Fallacy of Success
The existing Confederation is founded on fallacious principles.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument.
Thomas Paine -- Common Sense
I argued (no less fallaciously) that my cowardly felicity proved that I was a man capable of carrying out the adventure successfully.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
Such were the consequences of the fallacious principle on which this interesting establishment was founded.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
The Minister, in all good faith, read this fallacious statement in the House of Commons, and he was promptly shouted down by Members howling 'Liar!' and 'Wolf-lover!'
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

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