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  • The hospital called the suit "misleading and fallacious."  (source)
    fallacious = not correct (mistaken or intended to deceive)
  • 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.  (source)
    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.  (source)
    fallacious = mistaken
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  • 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.  (source)
    fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
  • I argued (no less fallaciously) that my cowardly felicity proved that I was a man capable of carrying out the adventure successfully.†  (source)
    fallaciously = in a false manner
  • This was small consolation, but Miss Mills wouldn't encourage fallacious hopes.  (source)
    fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
  • Sir John Dalrymple, the putative father of a whining jesuitical piece, fallaciously called, "THE ADDRESS OF THE PEOPLE OF _ENGLAND_ TO THE INHABITANTS OF _AMERICA_," hath, perhaps, from a vain supposition, that the people here were to be frightened at the pomp and description of a king, given, (though very unwisely on his part) the real character of the present one: "But" says this writer, "if you are inclined to pay compliments to an administration, which we do not complain of," (meaning the Marquis of Rockingham's at the repeal of the Stamp Act) "it is very unfair in you to withhold them from that prince by WHOSE _NOD ALONE_ THEY WERE PERMITTED TO DO ANY THING."†  (source)
    fallaciously = in a false manner
  • "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."  (source)
    fallacious = mistaken (based on incorrect information or belief)
  • the fallaciously inferred debility of the female: the muscularity of the male: the variations of ethical codes: the natural grammatical transition by inversion involving no alteration of sense of an aorist preterite proposition (parsed as masculine subject, monosyllabic onomatopoeic transitive verb with direct feminine object) from the active voice into its correlative aorist preterite proposition (parsed as feminine subject, auxiliary verb and quasimonosyllabic onomatopoeic past participle with complementary masculine agent) in the passive voice: the continued product of seminators by generation: the continual production of semen by distillation: the futility of triumph or protest or vindi†  (source)
    fallaciously = in a false manner
  • ...all appearances to the contrary, such as ... being to his certain knowledge fallacious;  (source)
    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.  (source)
    fallacious = mistaken
  • 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!'†  (source)
    fallacious = not correct
  • The existing Confederation is founded on fallacious principles.†  (source)
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