Definition of "sophistry"

sophistry

/ˈsɒ.fɪ.stɹi/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural sophistries
1. (uncountable, historical) The actions or arguments of a sophist.
  Quotations
  Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money.
  1844, Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments
2. (uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning.
3. (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so; a sophism.