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Definition
not correct- typically describing something as mistaken due to incorrect information or belief
- sometimes describing something as an intentional lie
- She reached a false conclusion that was based on fallacious reasoning.
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
- You can't convict him based on the fallacious testimony of one witness.
- This was small consolation, but Miss Mills wouldn't encourage fallacious hopes.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- The hospital called the suit "misleading and fallacious."Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- "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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ...all appearances to the contrary, such as ... being to his certain knowledge fallacious;Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm
Pain for a while or anguish, and excite
Fallacious hope, or...John Milton -- Paradise Lost - 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
- I mean, simple ontological reductionism is clearly a fallacious argument,Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
- 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
fallacious = false or incorrect
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
fallacious = not correct (mistaken or intended to deceive)
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
fallacious = mistaken
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
fallacious = mistaken
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect belief)
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)