Definition of "sophistic" [so•phis•tic]

• Of, relating to, or characteristic of sophists. (adjective)
• Apparently sound but really fallacious; specious: sophistic refutations. (adjective)

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• "A comment was banned for the use of the word sophistic?"
• "With the movement in Greek thought which is generally known as sophistic,"
• "Sullen countermodernity images the academic as the snide sophistic Last Man, pathetically, defensively retreated into what – all good sense knows – is pseudo-intellectual flummery."