Jesuitical

adjective

1 Jesuitical

Roget 544: false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.    artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical; tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected etc. 855.    collusive, collusory; artful etc. (cunning) 702; perfidious etc. 940; spurious etc. (deceptive) 545; untrue etc. 546; falsified etc. v.; covinous.    ... show more

Roget 477: intuitive, instinctive, impulsive; independent of reason, anterior to reason; gratuitous, hazarded; unconnected.    unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous^†, absonant^†; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur [Lat.], it does not follow.    deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum [Lat.], evasive; irrelevant etc. 10.    weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.    irrational; nonsensical etc. (absurd) 497.    foolish etc. (imbecile) 499; frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling; finespun^†, overrefined^†.    at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.    ... show more

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Moby thesaurus: apparently sound, casuistic, colorable, deceptive, dishonest, disingenuous, empty, fallacious, hollow, illusive, insincere, jesuitic, mealymouthed, overrefined, oversubtle, philosophistic, plausible, sophistic, sophistical, specious, tongue in cheek, uncandid, unfrank, unserious ... show more.

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