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

Her favors, however, were not to be won, as usual, by the payment of gold, but through the invention or solution of a difficult sophism.

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell

—The learned suspected Scroderus of an indecent sophism in this—and Prignitz cried out aloud in the dispute, that Scroderus had shifted the idea upon him——but Scroderus went on, maintaining his thesis.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

"But to promise to abjure under condition of being set free, is to bind oneself to abjure," answered Joan, disconcerted by the canon's sophism.

From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Sue, Eug?ne