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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overgeneral reasoning |
| Synonyms: | chicanery, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, oversubtleness, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, trick |
u| Main Entry: | equivocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of an issue |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, amphibology, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, dissimulation, distortion, double entendre, double meaning, double talk, doubtfulness, duplicity, equivocality, evasion, fallacy, fib, fibbing, hedging, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, quibbling routine, run-around, shuffling, song and dance, song*, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, stall, stonewall, tergiversation, waffle |
| Antonyms: | directness, facing, meeting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fallacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, misconception |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy, illogicality, inconsistency, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, mistake, non sequitur, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, subterfuge, untruth |
| Antonyms: | certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | hypocrisy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness, pretense |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | forthrightness, honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth |
| Main Entry: | trick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceit |
| Synonyms: | ambush, artifice, blind, bluff, casuistry, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, con*, concealment, conspiracy, conundrum, cover, deception, decoy, delusion, device, disguise, distortion, dodge*, double-dealing, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, fabrication, fake, falsehood, feint, forgery, fraud, game, gimmick, hoax, illusion, imposition, imposture, intrigue, invention, machination, maneuver, perjury, plot, ploy, pretense, ruse, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, swindle, trap, treachery, wile |
| Antonyms: | frankness, honesty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sophistry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, casuistry, fallacy, inconsistency, paralogism, paralogy, trickery |
| Main Entry: | pharisaism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocrisy |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud*, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, tartuffery, two-facedness, unctuousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phoniness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocrisy |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud*, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, pietism, quackery, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, tartuffery, two-facedness, unctuousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sanctimoniousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocrisy |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bad faith, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, false profession, falsity, fraud*, glibness, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service, mockery, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, quackery, sanctimony, speciousness, tartuffery, two-facedness, unctuousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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