Meaning & use
fallacious
Based on a mistaken belief or flawed reasoning, and therefore misleading or false.
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The senator's fallacious argument relied on a statistic that had been taken out of context.
It is fallacious to assume that a correlation between two events always proves that one caused the other.
A note on using this word
Fallacious describes reasoning or arguments, not people directly, and is closely related to the noun 'fallacy.'
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