sophistry

Example Sentences

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“My school, like so many others, induces students via shame and sophistry to identify primarily with their race before their individual identities are fully formed,” he wrote.

From Washington Times

He has dismissed concerns about the environmental impacts of his plans as “sophistry” from his political opponents and the nation’s elite.

From Los Angeles Times

“Instead of sophistry & putting onus on Iran,” he wrote that European nations should abide by their commitments and demand an end to Trump’s “economic terrorism against Iran.”

From Los Angeles Times

“The article does not claim that plaintiff actually met with those officials,” the judge noted, adding that Page’s arguments regarding Isikoff’s description of the dossier and Steele were “either sophistry or political spin.”

From Seattle Times

That’s a classic move in American culture: To see the unschooled and homespun as more authentic — and especially as more authentically American — than the sophistries of those decadent old Europeans.

From New York Times