casuist

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Beneath the glamorous raiment one can also glimpse the wily casuist who accepts the flimsiest excuse for invading France and courts his future wife knowing he has already won her as a spoil of war.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his "farce to make you sad" Ghelderode satirizes every brand of casuist who ever hoped to remold the world�and manages to reduce all of history to irony.

From Time Magazine Archive

I feel only pity," concluded Stimson, "for the casuist who would dismiss the Nazi leaders because 'they were not warned it was a crime.'

From Time Magazine Archive

It never seemed to occur to the mind of the honest but simple casuist that in putting “any one” on a par with William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott, he was writing simple nonsense.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

A sturdy catechizing in the interest of some popular dogma will generally give the casuist an apparent advantage over the seeker of knowledge for itself alone.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various