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
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)
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
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
