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- casuistic
- of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems
- of or relating to or practicing casuistry; "overly subtle casuistic reasoning"
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- jesuitical
collapse - having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism; "Jesuitical education" related words >
- disingenuous
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- not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse" related words >
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- calculating,
- casuistic,
- clever,
- colorable,
- contriving,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- designing,
- devious,
- dishonest,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feigned,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- left-handed,
- mealymouthed,
- oblique,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perjured,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- plotting,
- scheming,
- shifty,
- slick,
- sly,
- smooth,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- tongue in cheek,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- wily
- plausible
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- apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful; "a plausible excuse"
- given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments; "a plausible liar" related words >
- acceptable,
- admissible,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- believable,
- casuistic,
- cogent,
- cogitable,
- colorable,
- colored,
- conceivable,
- conceivably possible,
- contingent,
- credible,
- creditable,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- disingenuous,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- fiduciary,
- gilded,
- hollow,
- humanly possible,
- illusive,
- imaginable,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- just,
- justifiable,
- legitimate,
- likely,
- logical,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- ostensible,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- philosophistic,
- possible,
- potential,
- presentable,
- probable,
- rational,
- reasonable,
- reliable,
- sane,
- seeming,
- sensible,
- smooth,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- sound,
- specious,
- tenable,
- thinkable,
- tinsel,
- trustworthy,
- trusty,
- unexceptionable,
- unimpeachable,
- unquestionable,
- well-argued,
- well-founded,
- well-grounded,
- wholesome,
- worthy of faith
- illusive
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- based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- Circean,
- airy,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- autistic,
- beguiling,
- bewitching,
- casuistic,
- catchy,
- charming,
- chimeric,
- colorable,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- disingenuous,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- empty,
- enchanting,
- entrancing,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- fascinating,
- fishy,
- glamorous,
- hallucinatory,
- hollow,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- misleading,
- ostensible,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- questionable,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spellbinding,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unactual,
- unfounded,
- unreal,
- unsubstantial,
- visionary,
- witching
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- apparently sound,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- cagey,
- canny,
- casuistic,
- clever,
- colorable,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- empty,
- fallacious,
- feline,
- foxy,
- guileful,
- hollow,
- illusive,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- inventive,
- jesuitic,
- knowing,
- mealymouthed,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- pawky,
- philosophicojuristic,
- philosophicoreligious,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- politic,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistic,
- specious,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tongue in cheek,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- uncandid,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- specious
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- plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- airy,
- alleged,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- autistic,
- avowed,
- beguiling,
- casuistic,
- chimeric,
- claimed,
- colorable,
- colored,
- conceivable,
- deceptive,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- disingenuous,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- empty,
- erroneous,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- gilded,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- idle,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- in name only,
- inaccurate,
- incorrect,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- likely,
- meretricious,
- misleading,
- nugatory,
- ostensible,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- possible,
- presumable,
- presumed,
- pretended,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- purported,
- seeming,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- so-called,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- spectral,
- spurious,
- superficial,
- supposed,
- supposititious,
- tinsel,
- unactual,
- unfounded,
- unreal,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- vain,
- visionary,
- wrong
- hypocritical
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- professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- affected,
- alleged,
- ambidextrous,
- assumed,
- avowed,
- bland,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- claimed,
- counterfeited,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- fake,
- faked,
- faking,
- false,
- feigned,
- feigning,
- glib,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- holier-than-thou,
- hypocritic,
- in name only,
- insincere,
- left-handed,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- moralistic,
- oily,
- ostensible,
- pecksniffian,
- perfidious,
- pharisaic,
- pharisaical,
- pharisean,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- pretended,
- pretending,
- pretexted,
- professed,
- purported,
- put-on,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- sham,
- simon-pure,
- simulated,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- so-called,
- specious,
- spurious,
- treacherous,
- two-faced,
- unctuous,
- underhand,
- untrustworthy
- evasive
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- deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"
- avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire; "pilots are taught to take evasive action" related words >
- ambiguous,
- amoral,
- bickering,
- cagey,
- captious,
- casuistic,
- caviling,
- choplogic,
- close,
- closemouthed,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- devious,
- discreet,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- dissembling,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- elusory,
- equivocal,
- equivocating,
- equivocatory,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- intangible,
- logic-chopping,
- malingering,
- misleading,
- nit-picking,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- paltering,
- petty,
- picayune,
- prevaricating,
- pussyfooting,
- questionable,
- quibbling,
- rotten,
- secret,
- secretive,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- shirking,
- shuffling,
- sinister,
- sliding,
- slippery,
- sly,
- sophistical,
- suspicious,
- tergiversant,
- tergiversating,
- trichoschistic,
- tricky,
- trifling,
- trivial,
- unclear,
- uncommunicative,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vague,
- weasel-worded,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- overrefined
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- excessively delicate or refined related words >
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- Marinistic,
- affected,
- allergic,
- anaphylactic,
- apparently sound,
- artificial,
- casuistic,
- chichi,
- colorable,
- deceptive,
- delicate,
- disingenuous,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elegant,
- empathetic,
- empathic,
- empty,
- euphemistic,
- euphuistic,
- exquisite,
- fallacious,
- formalistic,
- goody good-good,
- goody-goody,
- goosy,
- hairsplitting,
- hollow,
- hypercritical,
- hyperelegant,
- hyperesthetic,
- hyperpathic,
- hypersensitive,
- illusive,
- insincere,
- irritable,
- itchy,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- mannered,
- mincing,
- morbidly sensitive,
- namby-pamby,
- nervous,
- overconscientious,
- overcritical,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overfastidious,
- overmeticulous,
- overnice,
- overparticular,
- overprecise,
- overscrupulous,
- oversensible,
- oversensitive,
- oversqueamish,
- oversubtle,
- overtender,
- passible,
- pedantic,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- precisian,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pretentious,
- prickly,
- puristic,
- refined,
- responsive,
- sensitive,
- simpering,
- skittish,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- studied,
- supersensitive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- tender,
- tetchy,
- thin-skinned,
- ticklish,
- touchy,
- ultracritical,
- unnatural
- mealymouthed
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- hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy; "a mealymouthed politician" related words >
- Pecksniffian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- abject,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- backscratching,
- beggarly,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- bootlicking,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- cowering,
- crawling,
- cringing,
- crouching,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- empty,
- fair-spoken,
- false,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- footlicking,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- groveling,
- gushing,
- hangdog,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritic,
- hypocritical,
- ingratiating,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- obeisant,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- on bended knee,
- parasitic,
- pharisaic,
- pharisean,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- prostrate,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- self-righteous,
- simon-pure,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sponging,
- sycophantic,
- timeserving,
- toadeating,
- toadying,
- toadyish,
- tongue in cheek,
- truckling,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- unfrank,
- unserious,
- wheedling
- dishonest
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- deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
- lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"
- lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable related words >
- Machiavellian,
- ambidextrous,
- amoral,
- artful,
- bent,
- casuistic,
- cheating,
- conscienceless,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counterfeit,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- cronk,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defrauding,
- devious,
- dishonorable,
- disingenuous,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- double-faced,
- double-minded,
- double-tongued,
- doublehearted,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- equivocal,
- evasive,
- faithless,
- fake,
- false,
- false-principled,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- forsworn,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- hollow,
- hypocritical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- knavish,
- lying,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- prevaricating,
- questionable,
- roguish,
- rotten,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- sinister,
- slippery,
- snide,
- suspicious,
- swindling,
- thieving,
- thievish,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- truthless,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfair,
- unfrank,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unserious,
- unstraightforward,
- untrustworthy,
- untruthful,
- unveracious,
- without remorse,
- without shame
- deceptive
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- designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
- causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" related words >
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- adrift,
- airy,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- autistic,
- awry,
- beguiling,
- beside the mark,
- bogus,
- casuistic,
- catchy,
- chimeric,
- colorable,
- corrupt,
- counterfeit,
- deceitful,
- deceiving,
- defective,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- distorted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- elusive,
- empty,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- evasive,
- fake,
- fallacious,
- false,
- fantastic,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fishy,
- flawed,
- fraudulent,
- hallucinatory,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hollow,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- insincere,
- jesuitic,
- misleading,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- ostensible,
- out,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- pseudo,
- questionable,
- seeming,
- self-contradictory,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- shifty,
- slippery,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- spectral,
- spurious,
- straying,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- unactual,
- unfactual,
- unfounded,
- unorthodox,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unreliable,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- untruthful,
- visionary,
- wide,
- wrong
- insincere
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- lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- adulatory,
- affected,
- ambidextrous,
- apparently sound,
- artful,
- artificial,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blarneying,
- buttery,
- cajoling,
- calculating,
- canting,
- casuistic,
- colorable,
- complimentary,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- dissembling,
- double,
- double-dealing,
- duplicitous,
- empty,
- evasive,
- fair-spoken,
- faithless,
- fallacious,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- fulsome,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- gushing,
- histrionic,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- hypocritical,
- illusive,
- insinuating,
- jesuitic,
- la-di-da,
- lying,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- mealymouthed,
- mendacious,
- obsequious,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- perfidious,
- perjured,
- pharisaic,
- philosophistic,
- pietistic,
- pious,
- plausible,
- pretentious,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- scheming,
- self-righteous,
- shifty,
- slick,
- slimy,
- slippery,
- slobbery,
- sly,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- sniveling,
- soapy,
- soft-soaping,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- stagy,
- sycophantic,
- theatrical,
- tongue in cheek,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- unctuous,
- underhanded,
- unfrank,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unserious,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- vulpine,
- wheedling,
- wily
- fallacious
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- based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"
- containing or based on a fallacy; "fallacious reasoning"; "an unsound argument" related words >
- Albigensian,
- Arian,
- Barmecidal,
- Barmecide,
- Catharist,
- Donatist,
- Ebionitist,
- Erastian,
- Gnostic,
- Jansenist,
- Jansenistic,
- Jovinianist,
- Jovinianistic,
- Lollard,
- Manichaean,
- Monophysite,
- Monophysitic,
- Montanist,
- Montanistic,
- Pelagian,
- Sabellian,
- Waldensian,
- Wyclifite,
- aberrant,
- abroad,
- absonant,
- adrift,
- airy,
- all abroad,
- all off,
- all wrong,
- amiss,
- antinomian,
- apocryphal,
- apparent,
- apparently sound,
- apparitional,
- askew,
- astray,
- at fault,
- autistic,
- awry,
- beguiling,
- beside the mark,
- casuistic,
- catchy,
- chimeric,
- colorable,
- contradictory,
- contrary to fact,
- contrary to reason,
- corrupt,
- deceiving,
- deceptive,
- defective,
- deluding,
- delusional,
- delusionary,
- delusive,
- delusory,
- dereistic,
- deviant,
- deviational,
- deviative,
- disingenuous,
- distorted,
- dreamlike,
- dreamy,
- dubious,
- emanationist,
- empty,
- errant,
- erring,
- erroneous,
- false,
- fantastic,
- faultful,
- faulty,
- fishy,
- flawed,
- hallucinatory,
- heretical,
- heterodox,
- hollow,
- hylotheist,
- hylotheistic,
- illogical,
- illusional,
- illusionary,
- illusive,
- illusory,
- imaginary,
- in error,
- inauthentic,
- inconclusive,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsequential,
- inconsistent,
- insincere,
- invalid,
- irrational,
- jesuitic,
- loose,
- mad,
- misleading,
- nonorthodox,
- nonrational,
- nonscientific,
- not following,
- not right,
- not true,
- off,
- off the track,
- ostensible,
- out,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- pantheist,
- pantheistic,
- paralogical,
- peccant,
- perverse,
- perverted,
- phantasmagoric,
- phantasmal,
- phantom,
- philosophistic,
- plausible,
- questionable,
- reasonless,
- seeming,
- self-annulling,
- self-contradictory,
- self-deceptive,
- self-deluding,
- self-refuting,
- senseless,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- specious,
- spectral,
- straying,
- supposititious,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- truthless,
- unaccepted,
- unactual,
- unapproved,
- unauthentic,
- unauthoritative,
- uncanonical,
- unconnected,
- unfactual,
- unfounded,
- unorthodox,
- unphilosophical,
- unproved,
- unreal,
- unreasonable,
- unscientific,
- unscriptural,
- unsound,
- unsubstantial,
- untrue,
- visionary,
- wide,
- without reason,
- wrong
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