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
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 Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
So far then, and up to date, the casuistic scale is made for the philosopher already far better than he can ever make it for himself.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
He had added a volume of Shaaloth-u-Tshuvoth, or "Questions and Answers" to the colossal casuistic literature of his race.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
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