sophism

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That prompted a Foreign Ministry official to say Pompeo had been “letting loose reckless remarks and sophism of all kinds against us every day.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2019

Mixing his sophism with some cynicism, Galbraith explained that such shyness will be outgrown before long.

From Time Magazine Archive

His was the famous sophism known as the Κυριεύων.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

There is nothing—no fallacy, no moral sophism, that would not be used to attain such an end.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

He had so trained and furnished his mind that it rejected instinctively a sophism or a false pretence.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron