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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fallacious
    adj 1: containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning";
           "an unsound argument" [syn: fallacious, unsound]
    2: intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious
       testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" -
       S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
       [syn: deceitful, fallacious, fraudulent]
    3: based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information;
       "fallacious hope"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fallacious \Fal*la"cious\, a. [L. fallaciosus, fr. fallacia: cf.
   F. fallacieux. See Fallacy.]
   Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to
   deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or
   reasoning. -- Fal*la"cious*ly, adv. -Fal*la"cious*ness,
   n.
   [1913 Webster]

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