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ad hominem
adjective
(ad ho-mi-nem)
appealing to personal considerations (rather than to fact or reason)
Examples:
Ad hominem arguments.
Words Related to
ad hominem
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logical fallacy
,
invective
,
tu quoque
,
vituperative
,
specious
,
vitriolic
,
polemical
,
sophistry
,
arguer
,
non sequitur
,
scurrilous
,
fallacious
,
ipse dixit
,
rhetorical
,
reductio ad absurdum
,
argumentation
,
sophomoric
,
inane
,
libelous
,
accusatory
,
hateful
,
disingenuous
,
nonsensical
,
vituperation
,
demagoguery
,
refutations
,
calumnious
,
snide
,
slander
,
intemperate
,
condescending
,
unscholarly
,
meanspirited
,
antisemite
,
reductionism
,
fisk
,
hyperbole
,
scientism
,
demagogic
,
puerile
,
ineloquent
,
mudslinger
,
polemics
,
idiotic
,
strawman
,
tautologies
,
tautological
,
misandry
,
theist
,
sanctimoniousness
,
exaggerator
,
pseudoscientific
,
irrelevancies
,
blither
,
vacuous
,
sophistic
,
jabberwocky
,
pedantic
,
relativist
,
sarcastic
,
editorializing
,
sophist
,
snark
,
infelicitous
,
dogmatist
,
mealymouthed
,
balderdash
,
zionism
,
tendentiously
,
bilious
,
ahistorical
,
hyperbolic
,
offensiveness
,
pedantry
,
misquotation
,
obtuse
,
antifeminist
,
circumlocution
,
ethnocentric
,
fatuous
,
belittlement
,
jackassery
,
inuendo
,
tactless
,
casuistry
,
sexist
,
innuendos
,
tommyrot
,
contemptible
,
unthinking
,
childish
,
poppycock
,
frivolous
,
disingenuity
,
uncredible
,
anthropocentrism
,
vindictive
,
contentless
,
uncharitable
,
untruth
,
ad hominem
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