casuistic

adjective

variants or casuistical
Definition of casuisticnext
as in sophistical

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for casuistic
  1. specious
  2. fallacious
  3. illogical
  4. irrational
  5. incoherent
Adjective
  • These days, those sorts of proclamations tend to feel more specious than ever.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Media lawyers now fear that Trump will ramp up the deployment of subpoenas, specious lawsuits, court orders, and search warrants to seize reporters’ notes, devices, and source materials.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of specious
Adjective
  • That will in turn spread on social media, which often plays a disproportional role in boosting these disinformation efforts by providing nearly unlimited platforms for unfiltered content and fallacious and deceptive claims.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • But hard evidence in both our nation’s history and our present shows that this reasoning is fallacious.
    Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
Definition of fallacious
Adjective
  • Curiosity In The Billable Hour World In a world where every minute counts, taking what may feel like the long way around can seem illogical.
    Hunter McMahon, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • This is a holiday movie, so Avery and Logan decide to handle this situation in the most illogical way possible.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of illogical
Adjective
  • The lines — in banana yellows, tangerine oranges, cranberry reds — twist and turn and suggest an irrational understanding of how the universe works.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
  • To prevent yourself from imposing irrational penalties, set up house rules that outline logical consequences in advance.
    Leslie Garisto Pfaff, Parents, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of irrational
Adjective
  • Excited delirium deaths in South Florida and across the country share commonalities: a sweating, agitated, incoherent man detached from reality — often high on cocaine or synthetic drugs — is restrained, sometimes aggressively, by police.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The audience follows her perspective across history to show that all of those seemingly incoherent mumblings sprinkled throughout the previous episodes can be strung together to form crucial clues about what comes later in the season.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of incoherent
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