casuistic

Synonyms for casuistic

adj misleading

adjective. trifling

In fact the casuistic Elihu casts no light whatever on the situation.

These last are perhaps to be regarded as casuistic discussions like those which play such a large part in Jewish tradition.

If that despotic and casuistic recluse could have known what my heart and soul are like, she would have advised you differently.

This is the position of the casuistic mystic moralist and not of the man who sees only the visible world.

My casuistic knowledge is not sufficient to solve such a question reasonably.

The Jansenists, however, endeavored to meet the Papal condemnation with casuistic subtlety.

But the concession can only be made for the sake of casuistic argument.

A casuistic proceeding was necessary as well as a firm union of the bishops as pillars of the Church.

I was sure of Alisanda's constancy, and yet did not know what pressure their casuistic minds might bring to bear against her will.

The theory, casuistic and subtle, appealed momentarily to a society that had no theories at all.