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91window dressing — Synonyms and related words: acting, adjunct, adornment, affectation, anteriority, appearance, arrangement, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, bold front, brave face, brave front, cheating, color, color patterns, coloring, deception, decor,… …
92claptrap — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. nonsense (See unmeaningness). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. empty talk, drivel, bombast, bunk; see nonsense 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. [KLAP TRAP] pretentious writing or talk… …
93deception — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Misrepresentation Nouns 1. (act of deceiving) deception, deceptiveness; falseness, falsehood, untruth; imposition, imposture, misinformation, disinformation; fraud, fraudulence, deceit, deceitfulness,… …
94fallacy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. error, flaw, misconception; false meaning. Ant., truth. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An error in reasoning] Syn. inconsistency, illogicality, sophism, sophistry, casuistry, quibble, quibbling, evasion,… …
95gloss — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. luster, sheen, shine, finish, polish; glaze, veneer; deception, speciousness. See light, smoothness, shallowness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Shine] Syn. gleam, shimmer, polish; see finish 2 . 2.… …
96sophistry — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sophism; false or specious reasoning; casuistry; fallaciousness, paralogism; shift, subterfuge, equivocation; absurdity, inconsistency; hair splitting. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sophism,… …
97casuistry — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sophistry, delusion, evasion; see fallacy 1 , lie 1 , trick 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Plausible but invalid reasoning: fallacy, sophism, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness. See CORRECT, TRUE …
98sophism — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. fallacy, sophistry, fallacious argument, absurdity; see deception 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Plausible but invalid reasoning: casuistry, fallacy, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness. See CORRECT, TRUE …
99spuriousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Plausible but invalid reasoning: casuistry, fallacy, sophism, sophistry, speciousness. See CORRECT, TRUE …
100specious — [ spi:ʃəs] adjective superficially plausible, but actually wrong. ↘misleadingly attractive in appearance. Derivatives speciously adverb speciousness noun Origin ME (in the sense beautiful ): from L. speciosus fair, plausible, specious , from… …
