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

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

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames

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

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

No single abstract principle can be so used as to yield to the philosopher anything like a scientifically accurate and genuinely useful casuistic scale.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William