casuistic
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It would be easy enough to brush off this peculiar fact with some casuistic postmodernist explanation, such as saying that disenfranchised groups find empowerment through humor.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 26, 2011
The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other, practical mysticism, cherished into strength by a disgusting system of casuistic ethics.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
This is the position of the casuistic mystic moralist and not of the man who sees only the visible world.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
But there must be no mistake about the new setting of the term; no casuistic ambiguity must be encouraged.
From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood
