fallacieux
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French, borrowed from Latin fallaciōsus.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
fallacieux (feminine fallacieuse, masculine plural fallacieux, feminine plural fallacieuses)
- fallacious (characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken)
- deceptive, disingenuous
- 1854, Gérard de Nerval, “Angélique”, in Les Filles du feu [The Daughters of Fire]:
- Ces jeunes filles fallacieuses nous firent faire une route bien étrange ; - il faut ajouter qu’il pleuvait.
- These deceptive young girls made us take quite the strange road;—it should be added that it was raining.
Further reading edit
- “fallacieux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.