casuists

noun casuists

• phonies — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• actors — Plural form of actor.
• hooks — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• sophists — (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.