casuist

Indeed, for at least a decade, the media landscape has been littered with casuist puff-pieces with headlines like:

Good native casuists, on whom I can place every reliance, tell me that possibly this may somehow or other affect the title of the others.

I see, Madam," said the good prelate, "what the case is: some of your casuists forbid rouge totally; others will permit you to wear as much as you please.

The boy's reason, for a moment, asserted its own majesty, at the broaching of this wild doctrine; and he returned an instant answer to the preacher which would have confounded a less practised casuist.

It has however, furnished ample scope for dispute to our casuists and theologians.