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What is the adjective for fallacy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb fail which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fallacious
  1. Characterized by fallacy; false or mistaken.
  2. Deceptive or misleading.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Professor Kirkwood speculates that people may be psychologically impelled to conform to the old fallacious idea that there is a natural pattern to life that ends in aging and death.”
      “The proofs are anecdotal or based on fallacious reasoning such as thinking that a correlation proves a causal connection.”
      “He had created a fallacious world in his mind, where different things of assorted colors were glorified.”
failproof
  1. Resistant to failure; that cannot go wrong.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The failproof strategy implemented by the team ensured the successful completion of the project without encountering any setbacks.”
fallible
  1. Capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But the system is far from fallible and the reality is somewhat disgusting.”
      “Do we want a hero with universal vision, or would we prefer a fallible creature, confusing and confused?”
      “Doctors are no longer remote gods of the white coat but increasingly hassled and fallible human beings.”
failable
  1. Capable of failing or becoming exhausted.
fallibilistic
  1. Of, or related to fallibilism.
failureproof
fail
  1. (slang, US) That is a failure.
failed
failing
  1. present participle of fail
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Accordingly, there should be an insistence on justice for those who may have been instrumental in the failure or failing condition of their bank.”
      “Kelly has attempted to obtain a hearing in an attempt to get out of jail because he claims that his health is failing behind bars.”
      “Certainly, the water and fish would be of great benefit to our failing supplies.”
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