Usually means: Applying standards to others, exempting oneself.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. special pleading: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. special pleading: Merriam-Webster
  3. special pleading: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. special pleading: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. special pleading: Collins English Dictionary
  6. special pleading: Vocabulary.com
  7. special pleading: Wordnik
  8. special pleading: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. special pleading: Wiktionary
  10. special pleading: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. special pleading: Dictionary.com
  12. Special pleading: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. special pleading: Rhymezone
  14. Special Pleading: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. special pleading: FreeDictionary.org
  16. special pleading: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. special pleading: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Special pleading: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Special Pleading: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (special pleading)

▸ noun:  Arguing that a particular case is an exception to a generally accepted rule, without justification and without a relevant basis.

Similar:
pleadery, plea, petitio principii, pseudo-argument, apologeticism, sanctimony, paromologia, argumentum ad Lazarum, paromology, argumentum ad passiones, more...

Opposite:
fairness, objectivity, impartiality, even-handedness

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Similar:
pleadery, plea, petitio principii, pseudo-argument, apologeticism, sanctimony, paromologia, argumentum ad Lazarum, paromology, argumentum ad passiones, more...

Opposite:
fairness, objectivity, impartiality, even-handedness



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