sophistry
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One judge said the claimed difference with gambling “is sophistry to the nth degree. . . . It’s still the house.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Roberts uses sophistry to avoid answering those bigger questions.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2025
And if Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta try to point it out before Manchester City faces Arsenal on Sunday, it will be viewed as gamesmanship, or deflection, or unapologetic sophistry.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
"Legal sophistry" will not compel India to participate in the proceedings of the PCA, Bagchi said.
From Reuters ● Jul. 7, 2023
It sounded to her like sophistry, or an explanation for its own sake.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Malcolm Gladwell has spent his entire career creating fallacious arguments otherwise know as sophistries.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2018
Baraka’s poems are filled with tantrums and sophistries, stances and dances.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2015
He’s begun to keep tabs on the online world, alert to the multiplicity of life and language beneath the tantrums and sophistries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
I can't tolerate any more of my sophistries about spirit, mind, and breath.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of Lord Henry Wotton's specious sophistries was this: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
From Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Stuart Mason
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