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111hypocrisy — n 1. false goodness, pietism, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, Tartuffery, pharisaism, Relig. formalism; cant, lip service, mouth honor; sophistry, speciousness; false profession, pretense, pretext; pretension, pretending, faking, feigning,… …
112invalidity — n 1. untenableness, inconclusiveness, unscientificness; illogicalness, illogicality, irrelevance, unreasonableness, senselessness, irrationality, incoherence, absurdity; falseness, falsity, fallacy, fallaciousness, erroneousness; speciousness,… …
113varnish — n 1. lacquer, glaze, veneer, enamel, japan, stain, shellac; transparent coating, facing, protective layer, wash; mastic, rosin, colophony, resin, lac; gloss, shine, polish, luster. 2. facade, front, camouflage, mask, disguise; pretense,… …
114sophist — soph•ist [[t]ˈsɒf ɪst[/t]] n. 1) pho (often cap.) pho any of a class of ancient Greek teachers of philosophy, rhetoric, etc., noted esp. for their ingenuity and speciousness in argumentation 2) pho a person who reasons adroitly and speciously •… …
115specious — /ˈspiʃəs / (say speeshuhs) adjective 1. apparently good or right but without real merit; superficially pleasing: specious arguments. 2. pleasing to the eye, but deceptive. 3. Obsolete pleasing to the eye; fair. {Middle English, from Latin… …
116casuistry — [n] overgeneral reasoning chicanery, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, equivocation, evasion, fallacy, lie, oversubtleness, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, trick; concepts 54,63 …
117delusion — [n] misconception, misbelief apparition, blunder, casuistry, chicanery, daydream, deception, deceptiveness, dream, eidolon, error, fallacy, false impression, fancy, fantasy, figment*, fool’s paradise*, ghost, hallucination, head trip*, ignis… …
118equivocation — [n] avoidance of an issue ambiguity, amphibology, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover up, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, dissimulation, distortion, double entendre, double meaning, double talk, doubtfulness, duplicity,… …
119fallacy — [n] illusion, misconception aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, deviation, elusion, equivocation, erratum, erroneousness, error, evasion, falsehood, faultiness, flaw, heresy,… …
120glitz — [n] showiness appeal, flashiness, gaudiness, glamour, ostentation, speciousness; concept 261 …
