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  • adverb In a sophistical fashion.

Etymologies

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From sophistical +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • "sophistically," he was aiming only at the exact record of events.

    Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927

  • Mr. Tiger sophistically counts Twittering communicators by the billion today and tomorrow, as though we are his bands of apes glancing at their leaders every 20 to 30 seconds.

    Zuckerberg, Primates and Thoreau 2012

  • They were also given the task of group working and preparing their presentation on different issues who delivered it sophistically.

    LSO convention concluded 2009

  • The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers.

    Union Disillusion: Journalists vs. Economists, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • They were also given the task of group working and preparing their presentation on different issues who delivered it sophistically.

    Multi Stakeholdes convention held 2009

  • Still further, Plato's Socrates is not above speaking to his interlocutors rhetorically at times, even sophistically (some of his arguments against Thrasymachus in book I of the Republic have been suspected of falling into the latter category, and Socrates 'interlocutors are occasionally reported as feeling that he has played some kind of verbal trick on them).

    Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry Griswold, Charles 2008

  • The gravest of them is, to argue sophistically, to suppress facts or arguments, to misstate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion.

    On Liberty 2002

  • It is possible, also, to argue sophistically against the user of a metaphorical expression as though he had used it in its literal sense: for the definition stated will not apply to the term defined, e.g. in the case of temperance: for harmony is always found between notes.

    Topics 2002

  • But lest we should seem to be reasoning sophistically, we consider it right, before giving you the promised

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • It may seem, however, that Abraham does but sophistically trifle with God, when, diminishing gradually from the number first asked, he proceeds to his sixth interrogation.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

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