casuistic

adjective

variants or casuistical
as in sophistic

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  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
  • Meta argued the state failed to prove misleading statements about privacy and that content moderation actually harmed New Mexicans.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Meta argued that New Mexico failed to prove that the tech giant's executives made misleading statements about privacy and that its content moderation practices harmed state residents.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of misleading
Adjective
  • Once such fallacious arguments were enthusiastically embraced, the horror of the Shoah was not far distant.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Defenders of Israel believe that designation is fallacious and dangerous.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026
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 industrial revolutions of the past produced enormous value alongside bankruptcies, dislocations, and periods of irrational exuberance.
    — Brian Solis, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • If anyone can reconstruct Apéry’s reasoning, the odd values of zeta may finally be proven irrational.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of irrational
Adjective
  • Tyson is at once scary, funny, personable, distasteful, introspective, superficial, articulate and incoherent.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Only coherent enterprises can confidently move fast, while the incoherent spend years undoing debt that’s compounded.
    — Madhu Shashanka, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of incoherent
Adjective
  • On the surface, paying as low as 24 cents for an hour of streaming game time doesn’t sound completely unreasonable.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • If Putin rejects the framework — or, more likely, demands unreasonable changes — then the world will at least know who blocked the fledgling peace effort.
    — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of unreasonable
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