fallacious, disingenuous, spurious, absurd, preposterous, ludicrous, nonsensical, fatuous, tendentious, baseless, unsupportable, laughable, illogical, dubious, unsubstantiated, hyperbolic, mendacious, flimsy, unprovable, ridiculous, ahistorical, implausible, tautological, misleading, pseudoscientific, tu quoque, irrelevant, unfounded, untrue, misguided, red herring, alarmist, vacuous, ad hominem, ipse dixit, reductio ad absurdum, frivolous, logical fallacy, otiose, unpersuasive, trite, idiotic, groundless, unsupported, plausible, non sequitur, hypocritical, puerile, simplistic, meretricious, sophistical, hackneyed, false, uncredible, inapt, sophistic, irrefutable, risible, contemptible, obfuscating, obtuse, illusory, exaggerated, conclusory, contentless, oversimplified, unavailing, unverifiable, unreasoned, scurrilous, nugatory, asinine, unrefuted, meaningless, falsifiable, demagogical, refutable, baldfaced, justificatory, specious argument, factitious, unsubstantial, disprovable, pernicious, unarguable, hyperbolized, wrongheaded, outlandish, outrageous, mealymouthed, inefficacious, bogus, indefensible, dishonest, facile, demagogic, inapposite, useless, erroneous, misrepresentative, oxymoronic, simpleminded, unconvincing, colourable, cogent, tenable, flimsiest, beguiling, delusive, essentialist, unanswerable, commonsensical, euphemistic, grandiloquent, justifying, mystifying

., casuist, casuistry, eristic, eristical, purport, sophist, sophistication, speciously, whitewash

gilded, insincere, invalid