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special pleading  noun [mass noun]Argument in which the speaker deliberately ignores aspects that are unfavourable to their point of view: he has produced a piece of special pleading that does not wholly stand up...- No one engaged in special pleading.
- The professor's statement was itself a piece of special pleading, by a fine scholar determined to avoid theoretical discussions.
- This is a most remarkable piece of special pleading.
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