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

But this world of ours is made on an entirely different pattern, and the casuistic question here is most tragically practical.

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

The casuistic sophistry of the canonical legists in deducing these war theories from the Koran is altogether futile.

From A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 by Cherágh Ali

Their casuistic minds also suggested that his list comprised Kings who had ruled different provinces simultaneously.

From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George