All sophistry synonyms

noun sophistry

• obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
• chicane — a bridge or whist hand without trumps
• evasion — The action of evading something.
• faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• double talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• misconstrual — A misinterpretation of the meaning of something.
• doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
• inexactness — The characteristic or quality of being inexact; a lack of precision, accuracy, or certainty.
• copout — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
• chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
• misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
• amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
• fallacy — a deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief, etc.: That the world is flat was at one time a popular fallacy.
• elusion — The act of eluding.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• eschewal — The act of eschewing.
• literalism — adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense, as in translation or interpretation: to interpret the law with uncompromising literalism.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• invalidity — invalidism.
• equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.