malreasoning

English

Etymology

From mal- +‎ reasoning.

Noun

malreasoning (uncountable)

1. Faulty reasoning.
   • 1842, Thomas Perronet Thompson, Exercises, Political and Others, volume 6, page 8:

     So gross a malreasoning, never entered into the head of any man with the genius of a lance-corporal.

   • 1937, The Journal of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, page 41:

     The essence of the objections raised by such individuals is largely of jealous derivation or is predicated upon purely economic malreasoning.