sophistic
- a of or pertaining to sophists
- s plausible but misleading
- For sheer sophistic jabberwocky and an excruciating reciprocity of cleverness Buckley's ideal Firing Line partner would be Marshall McLuhan.
- This was not a cheap, sophistic move on my part.
- Kerry's allies talk about the sophistic ation of his thinking, all but drawing the contrast to a President they bel ieve fixes on an idea and will not move off it even when .