CASUISTRIES Synonyms

• the tendency to be untruthful

• an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility

• state of lacking genuineness

• a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

• the deliberate act of failing to pay money

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

• a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

• the theology or the practices of the Jesuits (often considered to be casuistic)

• a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

• intentionally vague or ambiguous

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

• argue over petty things

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

• the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze

• the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening

• (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation

• the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency

• systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• a note explaining an absence

• a poor example

• accept an excuse for

• grant exemption or release to

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning

• ask for permission to be released from an engagement

• excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with

• strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit

• the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening

• (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation

• the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency

• systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone