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
This is the position of the casuistic mystic moralist and not of the man who sees only the visible world.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
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
And thus, now and then, he would salt his argument with a pinch of casuistic wit.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
