All casuist synonyms

noun casuist

• bigot — If you describe someone as a bigot, you mean that they are bigoted.
• trickster — a deceiver; cheat; fraud.
• impostor — a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
• phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• crook — A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
• charlatan — You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• faker — anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit: This diamond necklace is a fake.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
• actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
• informer — a person who informs against another, especially for money or other reward.
• pretender — a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
• malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
• poser — wannabe, pretentious person
• quack — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• deceiver — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
• swindler — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
• play-act — to engage in make-believe.
• smoothie — a person who has a winningly polished manner: He's such a smoothie he could charm the stripes off a tiger.
• masquerader — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
• sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
• pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
• bluffer — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
• backslide — to lapse into bad habits or vices from a state of virtue, religious faith, etc
• dissembler — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
• two-timer — to be unfaithful to (a lover or spouse).
• con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
• attitudinize — to adopt a pose or opinion for effect; strike an attitude
• wolf in sheep's clothing — any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
• backslider — A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
• attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
• hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.