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The tu quoque style of argument. Personal invectives; argument of personal application; argumentum ad hominem.
“We miss in this work his usual tu quoque style.”—Public Opinion.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.