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51Falsehood — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Falsehood >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 falsehood falsehood falseness Sgm: N 1 falsity falsity falsification Sgm: N 1 deception deception &c. 545 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm …
52Jesuit — 1540s, from Mod.L. Jesuita, member of the Society of Jesus, founded 1533 by Ignatius Loyola to combat Protestantism. Their enemies (in both Catholic and Protestant lands) accused them of belief that ends justify means, hence the sense a… …
53Jesuitically — adv. in a jesuitical way, slyly, foxily, calculatingly, guilefully, schemingly, craftily …
54subtle — a. 1. Crafty, cunning, artful, sly, wily, arch, astute, designing, intriguing, insinuating, crooked, tricky, diplomatic, Machiavelian, sophistical, Jesuitical. 2. Cunning, artful, cunningly devised. 3. Acute, keen, shrewd, sagacious, deep,… …
55hairsplitting — adj carping, caviling, quibbling, pettifogging, niggling, Inf. nitpicking, subtle, fine, nice, Jesuitical; hypercritical, critical, captious, censorious, severe, overcritical, faultfinding …
56mealy-mouthed — adj 1. mincing, overnice, nice, overdelicate, delicate, overdainty, dainty, euphemistic, euphemistical, euphemious, affected; priggish, prim, proper, Sl. uptight; tartuffian, pious, moral, self righteous, sanctimonious, holier than thou,… …
57quibbling — adj 1. carping, caviling, pettifogging, hairsplitting, niggling, Inf. nitpicking; Jesuitical, sophistical, casuistic, Logic. paralogistic; critical, hypercritical, captious, censorious, overcritical, faultfinding. 2. prevaricative, prevaricatory …
58sophistic — adj fallacious, false, unsound, faulty, flawed, imperfect, Inf. full of holes; inaccurate, specious, spurious, erroneous, mistaken, incorrect, Logic. paralogistic; quibbling, casuistical, subtle, captious, Jesuitic, Jesuitical, sophisticated;… …
59subtle — adj 1. thin, tenuous, slender, slight, attenuated; filmy, diaphonous, sheer, gossamer, gossamery, silken, transparent; ethereal, volatile, light, buoyant, floating, unsubstantial, imponderous; rarefied, refined, sublimated. 2. delicate, fine,… …
60jesuitry — n. casuistry. ♦ jesuitical, a. cunning. ♦ jesuitism, n. jesuitry; quibble …
