CASUISTIC Synonyms

• causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

• deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive

• capable of being corrupted

• so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly

• having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

• containing or characterized by error

• containing or based on a fallacy

• involving deception

• based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information

• not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

• in a disloyal and faithless manner

• arising from error

• erroneous and usually accidental

• deliberately deceptive

• inappropriate to reality or facts

• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

• designed to deceive

• inaccurate in pitch

• adopted in order to deceive

• (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful

• of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful

• the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

• contrary to or forbidden by law

• lacking sincerity

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

• of or pertaining to sophists

• plausible but misleading

• plausible but false

• based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

• ostensibly valid, but not actually valid

• plausible but false

• born out of wedlock

• false or fake; not what it appears to be

• having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented

• Of a person, following the letter of the law.

• Of a person, tending to resort to the law, as one who sues frequently.

• Practicing or characterized by legalism.

• of or relating to or practicing casuistry

• of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems