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

In a spirit of reverence they followed the recital of the Haggadah, as the patriarch intoned in a feeble but impressive voice, the queer, outlandish, Talmudic, and casuistic interpretations of the festival.

From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich

He is a casuistic moralist, if not a Shorter Catechist, as Mr Henley put it in his clever sonnet. 

From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

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

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil