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casuistic

adjective

variants or casuistical
as in sophistic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for casuistic
  1. sophistic
  2. specious
  3. misleading
  4. fallacious
  5. illogical
  6. irrational
  7. incoherent
  8. unreasonable
Adjective
  • What is sophistic is therefore to let the movement from sentience to moral status and then from moral status to legal rights happen without making visible the additional premises that are necessary at each stage.
    — Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The characters are treated with odd touches of realism and their sophistic arguments are stingingly psychologized.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
Definition of sophistic
Adjective
  • This specious parallel is all too readily available; the bombing of Dresden is the more obvious comparison.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
  • In the world of wellness and health content, few areas of our anatomy attract more interest lately — and specious claims — than the gut microbiome.
    — Will Stone, NPR, 22 June 2026
Definition of specious
Adjective
  • The final answer may cite real sources and still be misleading.
    — Patrick Dajos, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Providing false or misleading information to law enforcement undermines those efforts and unnecessarily diverts officers and resources away from members of our community who may need immediate police assistance.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of misleading
Adjective
  • Defenders of Israel believe that designation is fallacious and dangerous.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026
  • There is a widespread but fallacious perception that India's tariffs are inordinately high.
    — Mohan Kumar, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Aug. 2025
Definition of fallacious
Adjective
  • But that’s illogical, given the enormous ratings for the Seahawks–Patriots game, which was shown on the NBC broadcast network and the Peacock streaming service.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Trump's resumption of his illogical on-again, off-again trade war with our ally to the north has caused considerable economic concern in Canada, but has also activated a rush of resilience that Republicans in America can only dream of.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of illogical
Adjective
  • The fact, in other words, that there often isn’t a right answer or a clear victor—and that rational people are subject to irrational forces within and above them.
    — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Mathematicians have long known that some polynomial equations have only rational solutions, while others have irrational solutions (such as ).
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of irrational
Adjective
  • The most peculiar and internally incoherent sector is Communication Services.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Tom Cruise’s Digger Press Tour Kicks Off With a Whole Lot of Nothing The actor went long and incoherent in a rare longform interview that seems like a taste of the Oscars race to come.
    — Britina Cheng, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of incoherent
Adjective
  • But several individually reasonable events, viewed together and over time, can tell an unreasonable story.
    — Shahen Minasyan, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • At the outset of the Biden administration in January 2021, NASA was still targeting a 2024 lunar landing, even though this was widely seen as unreasonable.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of unreasonable
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“Casuistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/casuistic. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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