FALLACIOUS

(adj.) based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information
"fallacious hope"
it's fallacious to say that something must exist because science hasn't proven its nonexistence -added by nithi
(adj.) intended to deceive
"deceitful advertising", "fallacious testimony", "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice", "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
synonyms : deceitful , fraudulent
(adj.) containing or based on a fallacy
"fallacious reasoning", "an unsound argument"
synonyms : unsound

Mnemonics for fallacious

(Tag: ) fallacious.split it like fallac+ious...if you just concentrate on fallac..it look like FALSE,......so THINK that SOMETHING is based on a FALSE OR incorrect notion.....
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(Tag: ) basically this word is taken from... fallacia..means deceitful......so something which is deceitful is always based on misleading and incorrect notion.
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(Tag: global) the root fall means to deceive,if u remember this root it will in other words like infallible-not prone to error falsify-lie
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(Tag: ) It sounds like malicious ,,, malicious software "misleads" us , its "harmful"
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(Tag: telugu) fall ante padesdhi so some thing harmful
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