rhetoric

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" This is just bad rhetoric and bad logic, IMO.

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Quick take

using language effectively to please or persuade

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of rhetoric gathered in one view.

noun

using language effectively to please or persuade

noun

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

noun

loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for rhetoric.

noun

using language effectively to please or persuade

noun

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

noun

loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"

noun

study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

Example sentences

" This is just bad rhetoric and bad logic, IMO.

You see that rhetoric leveraged when Google and other firms say, 'Don’t regulate us.

"I find the individualist rhetoric in Silicon Valley to be puzzling.

It is a lot worse vis-a-vis the rhetoric of independence, free thinking, individualism.

Whether swearing is used or not seems to have little impact on that, but in my experience the best presenters manage to deliver a compelling talk by throwing out cheap rhetoric.

For all the rhetoric and ideology of free markets our regulatory infrastructure is geared towards incumbents in ways that make it insane to invest in industries that would be creating new jobs now and in the future.

This supposedly free market anti-labourer rhetoric is absurd: If market participants organise as a company, they seem have every right to negotiate as a whole to get a better deal.

Intelligent people can disagree in good faith about the issue, but labeling the anti-software patent position a "completely vacuous cop-out" is unjustified rhetoric.

The President clarifies that--despite much of what campaign rhetoric made people believe he thought--his concern is not whether we should be enacting these intelligence gathering programs that target everyone and attempt to hide behind policy rules, not laws.