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• n  a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• Although it vibrated with the typical waves of PTI'S sophism and sophistication, I enjoyed the article, thinking of the contrast between the week after and the week before .
• Writes Hagiographer Ghon: "The Devil had managed to slide into his conscience the monstrous sophism that a priest of the Church can obey God while disobeying the Church; it was .
• Thus far most Americans have taken refuge in a grim and too easy sophism: "The Russians and Poles and Czechs will handle the Germans; the Chinese will take care of the Japs before .

• sophistry
• sophistication

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• Abraham Lincoln in Baxter Bulletin
  To win widespread support among the people of those states, Lincoln said the leaders of this insurrection "invented an ingenious sophism" to mask their treason.