disingenuousness
51rationalization — Synonyms and related words: account, adjustment, alienation, apparent soundness, approach, arrangement, attack, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame shifting, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, casuistry, charting, circularity …
52sophism — Synonyms and related words: apparent soundness, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, bad case, begging the question, casuistry, circular argument, circularity, claptrap, crowd… …
53sophistication — Synonyms and related words: accomplishments, acquired taste, acquisition of knowledge, acquisitions, apparent soundness, appreciation of excellence, attainments, awareness, background, blaseness, casuistry, choiceness, circularity, civilized… …
54sophistry — Synonyms and related words: Italian hand, acuteness, aesthetics, ambiguity, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, axiology, bad case, begging… …
55specious reasoning — Synonyms and related words: apparent soundness, casuistry, circularity, deduction, deductive reasoning, demonstration, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disingenuousness, distortion, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning …
56speciousness — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, apparent character, apparent soundness, appearance, appearances, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, casuistry, cheating, circularity, color, coloring, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, disguise,… …
57subtlety — Synonyms and related words: Italian hand, absoluteness, accuracy, acquired taste, acuteness, airiness, airy nothing, animal cunning, apparent soundness, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation of excellence, appreciativeness, art …
58tongue in cheek — Synonyms and related words: casuistic, casuistry, crossed fingers, dishonest, disingenuous, disingenuousness, emptiness, empty, hollow, hollow mockery, hollowness, insincere, insincerity, jesuitic, jesuitry, mealymouthed, mockery, sophistry,… …
59vicious circle — Synonyms and 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,… …
60dishonesty — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deceit, deception, falsehood, trickery, infidelity, faithlessness, falsity, craft, artifice, duplicity, wiliness, untrustworthiness, insidiousness, cunning, guile, perfidiousness, slyness, perfidy, double dealing,… …
