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
Mendacious is a synonym for fallacious in deceptive topic. In some cases you can use "Mendacious" instead an adjective "Fallacious".
Mendacious
Mendacious adjective - Telling or containing lies.
Usage example: that tabloid routinely publishes the most moronically mendacious stories about celebrities
Fallacious is a synonym for mendacious in dishonest topic. You can use "Fallacious" instead an adjective "Mendacious", if it concerns topics such as deceptive, lying, untrue.
Nearby Words: mendacity, mendaciously
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Related pairs
- wrong and fallacious
- wrong and mendacious
- dishonest and fallacious
- dishonest and mendacious
- false and fallacious
- false and mendacious
- fraudulent and fallacious
- fraudulent and mendacious
- spurious and fallacious
- spurious and mendacious
- deceptive and fallacious
- deceptive and mendacious
- invalid and fallacious
- invalid and mendacious
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