sciolistic

What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

The Press, the Pulpit, and the Lyceum, with rare and brave exceptions, met the formidable array of Facts with which the work bristled, by sciolistic criticisms, bigoted denunciations, or timid, faint praise.

Here be judicial truths, skilfully Marshalled into clear order, which may profitably be noted by the angry sciolistic skirmishers on one side and the other in the great Social War now raging.

Must there not be in this subtle distribution much of what is arbitrary and sciolistic?