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11 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for SOPHISTICAL in dictionary:

NOUN:

a person who reasons with clever but false arguments.
a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.

ADJECTIVE:

relating to sophistry, also SOPHISTIC
Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
plausible but misleading

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of or relating to sophists, sophistry, or the ancient Sophists
same as sophistic

Words related to SOPHISTICAL

sophistic16 sophistically23

Words that contain SOPHISTICAL

sophistically23 theosophistical25

How to use SOPHISTICAL in a sentence

They may have been sophistical, but they appealed purely to the intellect of those whom he addressed, without the rhetoric of his great antagonists.
His premises were wrong, and his arguments would necessarily be sophistical and fall to the ground.
And it was taken under the sophistical plea that it belonged to the nation.
They went through the forms of trial, hoping to extort from the Maid some damaging confessions, or to entangle her with their sophistical and artful questions.
First, the German view, that England is responsible for the war because she did not prevent Russia from entering upon it, I regard as childish, if it is not simply sophistical.
Here, however, he was fated to discover that James had not for a moment been the dupe of his sophistical eloquence, ably as it had been exerted.
Indeed, to make a fortune on Christian lines is a thing which requires a somewhat sophistical defence.
To say that these passages are sophistical would be to pay them an extravagant compliment.
This resolution may be the determination of an instant, or the result of long-continued sophistical reasoning.
There is something of a sophistical ring in the speech of Phaedrus, which recalls the first speech in imitation of Lysias, occurring in the Dialogue called the Phaedrus.

He has no sophistical notions about love, which is brought back by him to its common-sense meaning of love between intelligent beings.
Hermogenes is very ready to throw aside the sophistical tenet, and listens with a sort of half admiration, half belief, to the speculations of Socrates.
Between these two extremes, which have both of them a sophistical character, the view of Socrates is introduced, which is in a manner the union of the two.
Dilipa has no trouble in piercing this sophistical argument, and again offers his own life, begging the lion to spare the body of his fame rather than the body of his flesh.
Truly characteristic of Socrates is another point in his answer, which may also be regarded as sophistical.
Your objection is, I think, a mere sophistical evasion of the difficulty.
First, passionate love is overthrown by the sophistical or interested, and then both yield to that higher view of love which is afterwards revealed to us.
The logic of the matter is quite simple, if somewhat sophistical.
His answers have a sophistical ring, and at the same time show the sophistical incapacity to grasp a general notion.
We submit that, considered as proofs, they are utterly sophistical.
But this conclusion of despair is a mistake as sophistical as it is injurious, as baseless in reality as it is natural in seeming.
Such an opposition between the two states is entirely sophistical, resulting from a profound misinterpretation of the truemoral relations connecting them.
It would be strengthened by being deprived of those sophistical arguments which are commonly urged in its favor, and which give to its enemies an incalculable advantage.
What I may feel it my duty to do if you three remain obdurate will be purely without reference to your rather sophistical definition of criminality.
He is not in my opinion guilty of such a sophistical and fantastic allegory as by that phrase of his to have meant the Begging Brothers.
They were driven on by the malicious psychology of their predecessors, by the perplexities of a sophistical scepticism, and by the imminent collapse of traditional metaphysics.
He saw that she was young, and, at the first glance, was deceived by a sophistical prettiness of her face, which waned before a more judicious scrutiny.
He is remarkable for the good temper which he exhibits throughout the discussion under the trying and often sophistical cross-examination of Socrates.

Similar words containing SOPHISTIC without suffix al

sophistic16 sophisticate19 sophistically23 sophisticated21 sophisticates20 sophisticator20 philosophistic26 sophisticating22 sophistication21 sophisticators21 unsophisticate21 sophisticatedly26 sophistications22 theosophistical25 unsophisticated23 pseudosophistic25 supersophistica24 unsophisticatio22 ultrasophistica22 oversophisticat25 unsophistication23 oversophisticated28 unsophistications24 ultrasophisticated26 supersophisticated28 pseudosophisticated30 pseudosophistication30 pseudosophistications31

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