All casuistical synonyms

adjective casuistical

• misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
• unclear — free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light: a clear day.
• vague — not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed: vague promises.
• casuistic — of or having to do with casuistry or casuists
• cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
• devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
• dissembling — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• fugitive — a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime.
• greasy — smeared, covered, or soiled with grease.
• indirect — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
• intangible — not tangible; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impalpable.
• lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
• oblique — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
• shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.
• shuffling — moving in a dragging or clumsy manner.
• slippery — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
• sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
• sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
• stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
• confusing — Something that is confusing makes it difficult for people to know exactly what is happening or what to do.
• disingenuous — lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous.
• inaccurate — not accurate; incorrect or untrue.
• puzzling — confusing or baffling: a puzzling answer.
• wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• beguiling — Something that is beguiling is charming and attractive.
• bewildering — A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
• confounding — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
• perplexing — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• catchy — If you describe a tune, name, or advertisement as catchy, you mean that it is attractive and easy to remember.
• delusive — tending to delude; misleading
• delusory — tending to delude; misleading; deceptive: a delusive reply.
• demagogic — If you say that someone such as a politician is demagogic, you are criticizing them because you think they try to win people's support by appealing to their emotions rather than using reasonable arguments.
• fallacious — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• specious — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
• spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
• deceitful — If you say that someone is deceitful, you mean that they behave in a dishonest way by making other people believe something that is not true.
• tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
• ambiguous — If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
• cagey — If you say that someone is being cagey about something, you mean that you think they are deliberately not giving you much information or expressing an opinion about it.
• deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
• false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.