Fallacious
Fallacious adjective - Tending or having power to deceive.
Usage example: consumers who harbor the fallacious belief that credit-card spending will never catch up with them
Hypocritical and fallacious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hypocritical" instead an adjective "Fallacious".
Hypocritical
Hypocritical adjective - Not being or expressing what one appears to be or express.
Fallacious and hypocritical are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fallacious" instead an adjective "Hypocritical".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- phony and fallacious
- phony and hypocritical
- hollow and fallacious
- hollow and hypocritical
- dishonest and fallacious
- dishonest and hypocritical
- false and fallacious
- false and hypocritical
- fraudulent and fallacious
- fraudulent and hypocritical
- spurious and fallacious
- spurious and hypocritical
- deceptive and fallacious
- deceptive and hypocritical
Both words in one sentence
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For example, if a boy is sent to his room for being the only person in his house to ever raid the biscuit tin, it would not be fallacious for him to point out that he did it because he saw his father doing it, therefore it is hypocritical to punish him on that basis.
Source: Ad Hominem
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