casuist

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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

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

It had been taught, long before, by the celebrated casuist Navarre, and others totally unconnected with the Jesuits.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)

All laws are general; none are invariable; I am not writing as a moralist or casuist.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry