fallaciously
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8.4
- adverb
- /fəˈleɪʃəsli/
- Formal
:
falazmente
- Many people fallaciously assume that the answer is obvious without further research.
Examples
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"I would wager that if a poll were taken, most scientists would relate more to your experience and motivations than any of the fallaciously projected stereotypes."
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To extend one set of relational oppositions to other relations is a process of codification that fallaciously naturalizes and over-determines the relationship.
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So who really is assuming and reasoning fallaciously?
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The few that have sold were quality and are fallaciously being used as 'comparables' to the majority, which is crap.
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The Seligman thesis would fallaciously imply that the rates of return increase in proportion to the amount invested.
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In the self-interest illusion, people fallaciously think that their contribution to their group comes back to benefit them and makes their sacrifice worthwhile.
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Henry W. Block of H & R Block, the largest income tax preparation company, argued fallaciously in a statement against a proposal to simplify federal income tax laws (for example, to eliminate deductions):
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EROEI/EROI's chief use has been to denigrate efforts to find substitutes for oil by fallaciously comparing things that are different and not recognizing that other characteristics of energy forms are important, such as renewability, utility, and price.
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I realize you don't profess to speak for others, yet I would wager that if a poll were taken, most scientists would relate more to your experience and motivations than any of the fallaciously projected stereotypes.
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Second, we focus on racist language directed at President Obama because racism directed at black Americans is not only historically more significant, but it also highlights the persistence of explicitly racist attitudes in what some have (fallaciously) termed 'post-racial America.'
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Synonyms
83
3.5
In a way that is not true or correct
65
2.7
In a way that is not correct or fair
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1.7
In the wrong way
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3.1
In a wrong way because someone made an error
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5.7
In a way that makes something seem different from what it really is
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6.7
In a mistaken way
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5.3
In a way that gives someone the wrong idea
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1.0
In a way that is not correct
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6.8
In a way that does not follow clear thinking
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6.3
In a way that tries to trick someone
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6.4
A wrong way of acting because of bad judgment or wrong beliefs
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6.5
In a way that has no facts or proof
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7.7
In a way that seems true but is not
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5.9
In a way that is not true to make other people believe something false
In a wrong or broken way
In a way based on wrong reasons or false facts
In a way that seems true but is actually false
In a way that makes people believe something that is not true
To use clever but unfair reasons to avoid a clear answer
Antonyms
How False
Surface Forms
Morphology
fallaciously = fallacious (semi-transparent) = fallacy + ous + ly
The adverb is formed by adding productive '-ly' to 'fallacious', but 'fallacious' itself involves a stem/spelling change from 'fallacy' which may obscure the relation for learners.
Etymology
Fallaciously comes from a Latin root fall- meaning 'to deceive', and you can see the same idea in the familiar word false. So to do something fallaciously is to do it in a way that 'misleads' or gives a 'wrong' idea.