Specious
91delusory — index colorable (specious), deceptive, delusive, dishonest, disingenuous, fallacious, false (not g …
92fake — I noun charlatan, copy, counterfeit copy, emulation, fabrication, facsimile, false representation, falsehood, falsification, feigned copy, forged duplicate, forgery, fraud, fraudulent replica, hoax, imitation, imposter, pretender, quack, replica …
93purported — I adjective alleged, assumed, avowedly, claimed, in name only, ostensible, pretended, pretexed, professed, reported, specious, so called II index ostensible, putative, specious Burton s Legal Thesau …
94sophistic — I adjective captiosus, captious, casuistic, casuistical, contrary to reason, erroneous, fallacious, false, faulty in logic, groundless, ill reasoned, illogical, inconsequent, inconsistent, incorrect, invalid, irrational, misleading, paralogical,… …
95seeming — Synonyms and related words: Barmecidal, Barmecide, Prospero, acting, affectation, airiness, airy, alleged, angle, apparent, apparitional, appearance, appearing, aspect, assumed, attitudinizing, autistic, bearing, bluff, bluffing, cheating,… …
96claim — I n. 1) to enter, file, lodge, make, put forward, put in, submit; establish; press; substantiate a claim (she filed a claim for compensation) 2) to lay claim to; to stake, stake out a claim to 3) (esp. AE) to jump ( steal ) smb. s claim 4) to… …
97reasoning — n. 1) cogent, logical, plausible, solid, sound reasoning 2) faulty; shrewd; specious reasoning 3) deductive; inductive reasoning 4) reasoning that + clause (her reasoning that the crime had been committed elsewhere proved to be true) * * * [… …
98false — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of persons ] Syn. perfidious, faithless, treacherous, unfaithful, disloyal, dishonest, lying, untruthful, base, hypocritical, double dealing, knavish, roguish, malevolent, rascally, scoundrelly, mean, malicious,… …
99Intuition — (Roget s Thesaurus) Sophistry >The absence of reasoning. >. False or vicious reasoning PARAG:Intuition >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 1 =>{ant,476,} intuition instinct association Sgm: N 1 presentiment presentiment Sgm: N 1 rule of thumb rule… …
100Vindication — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Vindication >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vindication vindication justification warrant Sgm: N 1 exoneration exoneration exculpation Sgm: N 1 acquittal acquittal &c. 970 Sgm: N 1 whitewashing whitewashing …
