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
It could not be discussed without that admixture of legality and ethics which delights a casuistic intellect.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John
But as the verse is not a legal command, we condemn at once the casuistic sophistry of the legists.
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
These "intellectuals" entered the lists against religious fanaticism and casuistic methods, seeking to replace them by liberal ideas and scientific research.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum
