Home Definitions Research Development	1 2 3 4 5 Behaviour vs intention Behaviour - Joke or deception Intention - to amuse or mislead ||??|| Mislead Misleading - ambiguous, casuistical, confusing, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, disingenuous, evasive, false, sophistical, specious, spurious, tricky,unstraightforward spe.cious adj [ME, visually pleasing, fr. L speciosus beautiful, plausible, fr. species] (1513) 1 obs: showy 2: having deceptive attraction or allure 3: having a false look of truth or genuineness: sophistic -- spe.cious.ly adv -- spe.cious.ness n ca.su.ist.ry n, pl -ries (1725) 1: a resolving of specific cases of conscience, duty, or conduct through interpretation of ethical principles or religious doctrin e 2: specious argument: rationalization soph.ist n [L sophista, fr. Gk sophistes, lit., expert, wise man, fr. sophizesthai to become wise, deceive, fr. sophos clever, wise] (1542) 1 cap: any of a class of ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of successful living prominent about the middle of the 5th century b.c. for their adroit subtle and allegedly often specious reasoning 2: philosopher, thinker 3: a captious or fallacious reasoner Bad joke; - poss. a pattern of behaviour intended to amuse but due to any number of reasons misses the mark and instead offends
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