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Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
  2. adj. plausible but misleading
  3. Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound. His argument . . . is altogether sophistical. Macaulay. -- So*phis"tic*al*ly, adv. -- So*phis"tic*al*ness, n.
  4. s plausible but misleading