fallaciously
in a misleading or logically false way
Roots
- -acious: trait-marking adjective ending
- fallac / fallax: deceptive, misleading, or false-seeming
Other words with the fallac / fallax root
- fallacious: misleading or based on false reasoning
- fallacy: a mistaken or misleading argument
- fallible: capable of making mistakes
- false: not true
Fallaciously is the adverb form: reasoning that moves by a false path.
The editorial fallaciously treated correlation as proof.