CASUISTIC Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

casuistic

adjective

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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

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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

Early voting trends and stories about how long the lines are in reliably red or blue districts are tempting to use as data points — but are notoriously misleading.

— Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2026
The claim featured in the ad was rated misleading, as a series of court records undercut the claim that Hamilton attempted to protect the child abuser.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of misleading

Adjective

Call that illogical or crazy, but don’t call it preposterous, monstrous, wackadoo, or loony tunes.

— Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026
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

Definition of illogical

Adjective

Because the entire system is rewarded by doing more, investments in prevention are financially irrational.

— Paul Markovich, STAT, 2 Nov. 2026
There’s nothing irrational about voters demanding more from a state where a third of the work force is unemployed and ranks highest in the World Bank inequality index.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of irrational

Adjective

Even though it was trained using 18 million trillion calculations, GPT 1 responds with an incoherent back-and-forth dialogue.

— New York Times, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Tyson is at once scary, funny, personable, distasteful, introspective, superficial, articulate and incoherent.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of incoherent

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With 20th Television increasingly focused on supplying Disney platforms, integrating the two areas would not be unreasonable.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026
Frimpong concluded that plaintiffs were likely to prove the practice violated the 4th Amendment’s protection against unreasonable seizures and the 5th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection.

— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of unreasonable

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