SOPHISTRY – [ sof–uh-stree ]
1. A subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
2. A false argument;
Today, Congress consists of 100 senators and 435 voting members of the House of Representatives. I figure about 10% of them know the meaning of the word yet it describes 99% of their communications.
Use sophistry in a sentence:
“If we remove all the Sophistries from The Congressional Record the entire document would be reduced to two lines: ‘The session is called to order’ and “We are adjourned.”