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adj. Containing or based on a fallacy: a fallacious assumption.

adj. Tending to mislead; deceptive: fallacious testimony.

adj. Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.

adj. Deceptive or misleading.

adj. Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or embodying fallacy; deceptively erroneous or misleading.

Of a deceptive quality; having a misleading appearance.

Synonyms Fallacious, Delusive, Deceptive; deceiving, deceitful, misleading, sophistical, elusory, illusive, false, disappointing. Deceptive may be used where there is or is not an attempt to deceive; in delusive and fallacious the intent to deceive is only figurative: as, a fallacious argument; a delusive hope. See deceptive.

adj. intended to deceive

adj. containing or based on a fallacy

adj. based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information

"And conveniently forgotten in fallacious references to a cycle of violence is that — following from their oft-stated call for the destruction of Israel — Hamas, Hezbollah (which is more or less an Iranian expeditionary force), Iran itself, and the Arab confrontation states are the parties that want to change the status quo, by violence and by their own flamboyant admission."

dishonorable    dishonest    invalid    wrong    incorrect   

illusory    delusive    deceitful    illusive    deceiving    erroneous    misleading    faulty    specious    wrong   

fallible    fallibility    falsifiable    fallibilist    falsify    falsity    falsificator    fallacy    falsifier    failure   

illogical    misleading    delusive    absurd    erroneous    deceptive   

Ignatius    audacious    capacious    ceraceous    crustaceous    efficacious    flirtatious    gracious    hellacious    herbaceous   

untenable    erroneous    mislead    unfounded    chimerical    delusive    illusory    unreliable    unfair    illogical