Words and phrases that have a meaning related to sophistry: (123 results)
Often used in the same context:
doublespeak, demagoguery, mendacity, balderdash, casuistry, obfuscation, claptrap, dissembling, falsehood, hyperbole, pedantry, illogic, reductionism, logical fallacy, revisionism, circumlocution, idiocy, speciousness, hairsplitting, tautology, inanity, argumentation, mumbo jumbo, hypocrisy, gobbledygook, subterfuge, sophist, fallacy, sophism, buncombe, disingenuity, prevarication, imposture, deviousness, perfidy, reductio ad absurdum, syllogisms, machination, opportunism, foolishness, doublethink, calumny, disingenuousness, ad hominem, refutations, legerdemain, dogmatism, poppycock, bunkum, absurdity, hubris, tu quoque, sophistic, stupidity, sophistical, tommyrot, disinformation, verbiage, hokum, flummery, pompousness, fatuity, sanctimony, nonsense, stratagems, doubletalk, philistinism, newspeak, irrationality, asininity, duplicity, chicanery, sanctimoniousness, posturing, legalism, dissimulation, presumptuousness, charlatanry, bafflegab, puffery, attitudinizing, polemics, weasel words, scientism, twaddle, humbuggery, platitude, cynicism, lunacy, inexactitude, dilettantism, jugglery, insincerity, shamelessness, grandiloquence, blather, gimmickry, erudition, piffle, drivel, deceptions, pretense, sophistries, subterfuges, quibble, sophisms, pretence, quibbles, artifice, affectation, equivocation, rationalizations, sleight, artifices, evasion, pretences
Appears in the definition of:
convolute, pervert, sophisticate, sophistication, twist, twist around
More general:
Also try:false belief
— Adjectives for sophistry: such, mere, ingenious, pure, much, sheer, subtle, miserable, legal, political, shallow, more...
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