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[syn: sophistic, sophistical]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sophistic \So*phis"tic\, Sophistical \So*phis"tic*al\, a. [L.
sophisticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. sophistique.]
Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry;
fallaciously subtile; not sound.
[1913 Webster]
His argument . . . is altogether sophistical.
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster] -- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. --
So*phis"tic*al*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sophistical
adj 1: plausible but misleading [syn: sophistic,
sophistical]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "sophistical":
Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, apparently sound, arch, artful,
astute, cagey, canny, casuistic, clever, colorable, crafty,
cunning, cute, deceitful, deceptive, deep, deep-laid, designing,
diplomatic, dishonest, disingenuous, empty, fallacious, feline,
foxy, guileful, hollow, illusive, ingenious, insidious, insincere,
inventive, jesuitic, knowing, mealymouthed, overrefined,
oversubtle, pawky, philosophicojuristic, philosophicoreligious,
philosophistic, plausible, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming,
serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth,
snaky, sneaky, sophistic, specious, stealthy, strategic, subtile,
subtle, supple, tactical, tongue in cheek, trickish, tricksy,
tricky, uncandid, unfrank, unserious, vulpine, wary, wily