Deceit

Zachary P. (United States of America)
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  1. casuist
    someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
  2. sophist
    someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
  3. specious
    plausible but false
  4. meretricious
    tastelessly showy
  5. gilded
    made from or covered with gold
  6. spurious
    plausible but false
  7. misbegotten
    poorly thought out
  8. bastardly
    born out of wedlock
  9. misbegot
    born out of wedlock
  10. inauthentic
    intended to deceive
  11. unauthentic
    intended to deceive
  12. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  13. fraudulent
    intended to deceive
  14. deceitful
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness
  15. duplicitous
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness
  16. duplicity
    the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith
  17. rationalize
    employ logic or reason
  18. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  19. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  20. tergiversate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  21. palter
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead
  22. evade
    avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
  23. parry
    impede the movement of
  24. dodge
    a quick evasive movement
  25. skirt
    a garment hanging from the waist
  26. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  27. hedge
    a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
Created on Sat Jan 02 12:37:27 EST 2010 (updated Sat Jan 02 18:03:53 EST 2010)

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