Related Words:
- Daedalian,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adept,
- adroit,
- apt,
- arch,
- artful,
- artistic,
- astute,
- authoritative,
- bravura,
- bright,
- brilliant,
- cagey,
- canny,
- clean,
- clever,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- coordinated,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- creative,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deft,
- demiurgic,
- designing,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- diplomatic,
- esemplastic,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- fecund,
- feline,
- fertile,
- foxy,
- germinal,
- gifted,
- good,
- goodish,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- handy,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- innovational,
- innovative,
- insidious,
- inspired,
- inventive,
- keen,
- knowing,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- neat,
- no mean,
- notional,
- on the ball,
- original,
- originative,
- pawky,
- politic,
- pregnant,
- productive,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prolific,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- seminal,
- serpentine,
- shaping,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skilled,
- skillful,
- slick,
- slim,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smart,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- some,
- sophistical,
- statesmanlike,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stylish,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactful,
- tactical,
- talented,
- teeming,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- virtuoso,
- visioned,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- well-done,
- wily,
- workmanlike
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- abecedarian,
- aboriginal,
- acute,
- antenatal,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- autochthonous,
- beginning,
- budding,
- cagey,
- canny,
- causative,
- clever,
- conceptive,
- conceptual,
- constructive,
- crafty,
- creative,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- demiurgic,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- elemental,
- elementary,
- embryonic,
- esemplastic,
- fecund,
- feline,
- fertile,
- fetal,
- formative,
- foundational,
- foxy,
- fruitful,
- fundamental,
- generative,
- germinal,
- gestatory,
- guileful,
- ideational,
- ideative,
- imaginative,
- in embryo,
- in its infancy,
- in the bud,
- inaugural,
- inceptive,
- inchoate,
- inchoative,
- incipient,
- incunabular,
- infant,
- infantile,
- ingenious,
- initial,
- initiative,
- initiatory,
- innovational,
- innovative,
- insidious,
- inspired,
- introductory,
- knowing,
- nascent,
- natal,
- notional,
- original,
- originative,
- parturient,
- pawky,
- politic,
- postnatal,
- pregnant,
- prenatal,
- primal,
- primary,
- prime,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- primogenial,
- procreative,
- productive,
- prolific,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rudimental,
- rudimentary,
- scheming,
- seminal,
- serpentine,
- shaping,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- teeming,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- ur,
- visioned,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- diplomatic
collapse - skilled in dealing with sensitive matters or people
- relating to or characteristic of diplomacy; "diplomatic immunity" related words >
- Daedalian,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- adept,
- adroit,
- ambassadorial,
- apt,
- arch,
- artful,
- artistic,
- astute,
- authoritative,
- bland,
- bravura,
- brilliant,
- cagey,
- canny,
- civic,
- clean,
- clever,
- consular,
- coordinated,
- courteous,
- crack,
- crackerjack,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- daedal,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deft,
- delicate,
- designing,
- dexterous,
- dextrous,
- discerning,
- discreet,
- excellent,
- expert,
- fancy,
- feline,
- foxy,
- geopolitical,
- good,
- goodish,
- governmental,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- handy,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- magisterial,
- masterful,
- masterly,
- ministerial,
- neat,
- no mean,
- pawky,
- perceptive,
- perspicacious,
- plenipotentiary,
- polite,
- politic,
- political,
- politico-commercial,
- politico-diplomatic,
- politico-economic,
- politico-geographical,
- politico-judicial,
- politico-military,
- politico-moral,
- politico-religious,
- politico-scientific,
- politico-social,
- politico-theological,
- professional,
- proficient,
- prudent,
- quick,
- quite some,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- skillful,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- some,
- sophistical,
- statesmanlike,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stylish,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- suffragist,
- supple,
- tactful,
- tactical,
- the compleat,
- the complete,
- thoughtful,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- virtuoso,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- well-done,
- wily,
- wise,
- workmanlike
- vicious circle
collapse
- an argument that assumes that which is to be proved
- one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first related words >
- absurdity,
- aimlessness,
- annular muscle,
- annulus,
- apparent soundness,
- areola,
- aureole,
- bootlessness,
- casuistry,
- chain of circumstances,
- chain reaction,
- chaplet,
- chapter of accidents,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circularity,
- circumference,
- circus,
- closed circle,
- concatenation of events,
- corona,
- coronet,
- crown,
- cycle,
- diadem,
- discus,
- disingenuousness,
- disk,
- distortion,
- emptiness,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- eternal return,
- evasive reasoning,
- fairy ring,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- fatuity,
- feast and famine,
- fecklessness,
- fruitlessness,
- futility,
- garland,
- glory,
- halo,
- hollowness,
- impotence,
- inanity,
- ineffectiveness,
- ineffectuality,
- inefficacy,
- ins and outs,
- insincerity,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- lasso,
- logical circle,
- loop,
- looplet,
- magic circle,
- meaninglessness,
- misapplication,
- mystification,
- noose,
- nugacity,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- orbit,
- otiosity,
- oversubtlety,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pointlessness,
- profitlessness,
- purposelessness,
- radius,
- rat race,
- rationalization,
- ring,
- rondelle,
- round,
- roundel,
- saucer,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- sphincter,
- subtlety,
- the absurd,
- triviality,
- unproductiveness,
- unprofitability,
- unprofitableness,
- ups and downs,
- valuelessness,
- vanity,
- vicious reasoning,
- vicissitudes,
- vicissitudes of fortune,
- wheel,
- worthlessness,
- wreath
- insincere
collapse
- 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
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Titian,
- acute,
- adust,
- alluring,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- attractive,
- auburn,
- bay,
- bay-colored,
- bayard,
- besmirched,
- blackened,
- brazen,
- bronze,
- bronze-colored,
- bronzed,
- brownish-red,
- cagey,
- cagy,
- calculating,
- canine,
- canny,
- castaneous,
- chestnut,
- chestnut-brown,
- clever,
- copper,
- copper-colored,
- coppery,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cupreous,
- cute,
- darkened,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- discolored,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- doggy,
- feline,
- ferruginous,
- foxed,
- foxlike,
- guileful,
- henna,
- ingenious,
- inky,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- liver-brown,
- liver-colored,
- livid-brown,
- lupine,
- mahogany,
- murky,
- pawky,
- plotting,
- politic,
- ready,
- reddish-brown,
- resourceful,
- roan,
- rubiginous,
- rufous,
- russet,
- russety,
- rust,
- rust-colored,
- rusty,
- scheming,
- seductive,
- serpentine,
- sexy,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smirched,
- smoky,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- soiled,
- sophistical,
- stained,
- stealthy,
- stigmatic,
- stigmatiferous,
- stigmatized,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- sunburned,
- supple,
- tactical,
- tainted,
- tarnished,
- terra-cotta,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily,
- wise,
- wolfish
- insincerity
collapse
- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical related words >
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apparent soundness,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- circularity,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- crossed fingers,
- deceitfulness,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- emptiness,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- facade,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- flattering tongue,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- front,
- goody-goodiness,
- gush,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- intrigue,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mere show,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- mummery,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oiliness,
- oversubtlety,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- philosophism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rationalization,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- slobber,
- smarm,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- subtlety,
- that flattering unction,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning
- wary
collapse
- marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" related words >
- Argus-eyed,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Pyrrhonic,
- Scotch,
- acute,
- agnostic,
- all ears,
- all eyes,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- aux aguets,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- careful,
- cautious,
- chary,
- circumspect,
- clever,
- considerate,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- custodial,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- discreet,
- disinclined to believe,
- disposed to doubt,
- distrustful,
- doubtful,
- doubting,
- dubious,
- eagle-eyed,
- feline,
- foxy,
- from Missouri,
- frugal,
- gingerly,
- guarded,
- guileful,
- hard of belief,
- hawk-eyed,
- impervious to persuasion,
- in doubt,
- inconvincible,
- incredulous,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- keen-eyed,
- knowing,
- leery,
- lidless,
- mistrustful,
- mistrusting,
- observant,
- on guard,
- on the lookout,
- on the watch,
- open-eyed,
- pawky,
- politic,
- provident,
- prudent,
- questioning,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- safe,
- saving,
- scheming,
- scrupulous,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- sharp-eyed,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- shy,
- shy of belief,
- skeptical,
- sleepless,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- suspecting,
- suspicious,
- tactical,
- thrifty,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- uncertain,
- unconvincible,
- uncredulous,
- unpersuadable,
- unpersuasible,
- untrusting,
- unwasteful,
- unwilling to accept,
- vigilant,
- vulpine,
- watchful,
- wily,
- with open eyes
- Byzantine,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- acute,
- arch,
- artful,
- artifice,
- astute,
- cabal,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- canny,
- chiseling,
- clever,
- collusion,
- collusive,
- complicity,
- complot,
- confederacy,
- connivance,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiracy,
- conspiring,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterplot,
- covin,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- deep-laid plot,
- designing,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- disingenuous,
- duplicitous,
- engineering,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- feline,
- finagling,
- finesse,
- forsworn,
- foxy,
- frame-up,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- game,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intrigue,
- intriguing,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- little game,
- machination,
- maneuvering,
- manipulation,
- nefarious,
- packed deal,
- packed jury,
- pawky,
- perjured,
- planning,
- plot,
- plotting,
- politic,
- prearrangement,
- preconcertedness,
- premeditation,
- preordering,
- put-up job,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- rigged jury,
- rigging,
- scheme,
- schemery,
- serpentine,
- setup,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stacked deck,
- stealthy,
- stratagem,
- stratagemical,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tactical,
- treacherous,
- trick,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- two-faced,
- uncandid,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- underplot,
- unfrank,
- unsincere,
- untruthful,
- up to,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- web of intrigue,
- wily,
- wire-pulling
- misapplication
collapse
- wrong use or application related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- abuse of terms,
- apparent soundness,
- befoulment,
- casuistry,
- catachresis,
- circularity,
- contorting,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defectiveness,
- defilement,
- delusion,
- desecration,
- deviancy,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- diversion,
- eisegesis,
- embezzlement,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fouling,
- garbling,
- gloss,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- insincerity,
- invalid linking,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- maladministration,
- malentendu,
- malfeasance,
- malobservation,
- malpractice,
- malversation,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- misapplicability,
- misapprehension,
- misappropriation,
- miscitation,
- misconception,
- misconduct,
- misconnection,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misemployment,
- misexplanation,
- misexplication,
- misexposition,
- misfeasance,
- mishandling,
- misintelligence,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mismanagement,
- misquotation,
- misreading,
- misreference,
- misrelation,
- misrendering,
- mistranslation,
- misunderstanding,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- misuse of words,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oversubtlety,
- peccancy,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- pilfering,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- rationalization,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squeezing,
- subtlety,
- torturing,
- twisting,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- violation,
- wrenching,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- feline
collapse
- any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals many with retractile claws
- of or relating to cats; "feline fur" related words >
- Cheshire cat,
- Chinchilla cat,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- Maltese cat,
- acute,
- alley cat,
- amphibian,
- aquatic,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- back-door,
- backstairs,
- biped,
- blue cat,
- cagey,
- calico cat,
- canine,
- cannibal,
- canny,
- carnivore,
- cat,
- catlike,
- cattish,
- catty,
- clandestine,
- clever,
- cosmopolite,
- covert,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- felid,
- foxy,
- furtive,
- gib,
- gib-cat,
- gnawer,
- grimalkin,
- guileful,
- herbivore,
- hidlings,
- hole-and-corner,
- house cat,
- hugger-mugger,
- ingenious,
- insectivore,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- invertebrate,
- kit,
- kitling,
- kitten,
- kittenish,
- kitty,
- kitty-cat,
- knowing,
- leonine,
- lionlike,
- mammal,
- mammalian,
- marsupial,
- marsupialian,
- mouser,
- omnivore,
- pawky,
- politic,
- primate,
- privy,
- puss,
- pussy,
- pussycat,
- quadruped,
- quiet,
- ready,
- reptile,
- resourceful,
- rodent,
- ruminant,
- scavenger,
- scheming,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- silver cat,
- skulking,
- slick,
- slinking,
- slinky,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- surreptitious,
- tabby,
- tabby cat,
- tactical,
- tiger cat,
- tigerish,
- tom,
- tomcat,
- tortoise-shell cat,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- under-the-counter,
- under-the-table,
- undercover,
- underground,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- ungulate,
- unobtrusive,
- varmint,
- vermin,
- vertebrate,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
- supple
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- make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use" related words >
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- able to adapt,
- accommodating,
- acquiescent,
- acute,
- adaptable,
- adjustable,
- agile,
- all-around,
- alterable,
- alterative,
- ambidextrous,
- amphibious,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- athletic,
- bendable,
- bending,
- cagey,
- canny,
- changeable,
- checkered,
- clever,
- complaisant,
- compliant,
- crafty,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- designing,
- diplomatic,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- ever-changing,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fawning,
- feline,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- fluid,
- formable,
- formative,
- foxy,
- generally capable,
- giving,
- graceful,
- guileful,
- impermanent,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- ingenious,
- ingratiating,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- kaleidoscopic,
- knowing,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- many-sided,
- metamorphic,
- mobile,
- modifiable,
- moldable,
- movable,
- mutable,
- nimble,
- nonuniform,
- obliging,
- obsequious,
- pawky,
- permutable,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- politic,
- protean,
- proteiform,
- ready,
- receptive,
- resilient,
- resourceful,
- responsive,
- rubbery,
- scheming,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- serpentine,
- servile,
- shapable,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- springy,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stretch,
- stretchy,
- submissive,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- susceptible,
- tactical,
- temporizing,
- timeserving,
- toadying,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- transient,
- transitory,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- trimming,
- two-handed,
- unresistant,
- unresisting,
- variable,
- versatile,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- wily,
- wiry,
- yielding
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- acute,
- ambagious,
- amphibian,
- anfractuous,
- anguiform,
- anguine,
- arch,
- artful,
- astute,
- batrachian,
- cagey,
- canny,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- clever,
- colubriform,
- convolutional,
- crafty,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- crocodilian,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- departing,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- diplomatic,
- discursive,
- eellike,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- feline,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- foxy,
- froggy,
- guileful,
- indirect,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- inventive,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- knowing,
- labyrinthine,
- lizardlike,
- lumbriciform,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- ophidian,
- out-of-the-way,
- pawky,
- planetary,
- politic,
- rambling,
- ready,
- repent,
- reptant,
- reptile,
- reptilelike,
- reptilian,
- reptiliform,
- reptiloid,
- resourceful,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- saurian,
- scheming,
- serpentiform,
- serpentile,
- serpentine,
- serpentlike,
- serpentoid,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- slick,
- slippery,
- slithering,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snake-shaped,
- snakelike,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- strategic,
- stray,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- swerving,
- tactical,
- toadish,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- vermiform,
- viperiform,
- viperish,
- viperlike,
- viperoid,
- viperous,
- vipery,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wary,
- whorled,
- wily,
- winding,
- wormlike,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- casuistry
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- moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas
- argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading related words >
- Christian ethics,
- Stoicism,
- aesthetics,
- altruistic ethics,
- apologetics,
- apologia,
- apology,
- apparent soundness,
- aretaics,
- argument,
- argumentation,
- axiology,
- bicker,
- bickering,
- categorical imperative,
- circularity,
- comparative ethics,
- contention,
- controversy,
- cosmology,
- crossed fingers,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defense,
- delusion,
- deontology,
- disingenuousness,
- disputation,
- dispute,
- distortion,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- emptiness,
- epistemology,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethics,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evasive reasoning,
- evolutionism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- first philosophy,
- flyting,
- gnosiology,
- golden rule,
- hassle,
- hedonism,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hubbub,
- insincerity,
- intuitionism,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- litigation,
- logic,
- logomachy,
- mental philosophy,
- metaphysics,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- moral philosophy,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- ontology,
- oversubtlety,
- paper war,
- passage of arms,
- perfectionism,
- perversion,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophism,
- philosophy,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polemic,
- polemics,
- rationalization,
- rhubarb,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- set-to,
- situation ethics,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- subtlety,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- utilitarianism,
- value theory,
- verbal engagement,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- war of words,
- wrangling
- equivocation
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- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- intentionally vague or ambiguous related words >
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- apparent soundness,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- bickering,
- boggling,
- captiousness,
- casuistry,
- caviling,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- circularity,
- circumvention,
- coloring,
- confabulation,
- counterword,
- defense mechanism,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- dodge,
- dodging,
- double,
- double entendre,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivoque,
- escape,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasive reasoning,
- evasiveness,
- exaggeration,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false coloring,
- false swearing,
- falsification,
- falsifying,
- fencing,
- fluctuation,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- getting around,
- hairsplitting,
- hedging,
- insincerity,
- irony,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- jink,
- logic-chopping,
- lying,
- misapplication,
- miscoloring,
- misconstruction,
- misrepresentation,
- misstatement,
- mystification,
- neutrality,
- nit-picking,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oscillation,
- oversubtlety,
- oxymoron,
- paltering,
- paradox,
- parrying,
- pendulation,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pettifoggery,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- polysemant,
- portmanteau word,
- prevarication,
- prevention,
- pun,
- pussyfooting,
- quibbling,
- rationalization,
- refraining,
- self-contradiction,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffle,
- shuffling,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- sidetracking,
- slip,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- squinting construction,
- straining,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- suppressio veri,
- tergiversation,
- the runaround,
- trichoschistism,
- vacillation,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- wavering,
- weasel word,
- weasel words,
- wobbling,
- zigzag
- 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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