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fallacious

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fallacious in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. intended to deceive
    "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
    deceitful  fallacious  fraudulent 
  2. based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
    "fallacious hope"
    fallacious 
  3. containing or based on a fallacy
    "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument"
    fallacious  unsound 
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