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 theory, casuistic and subtle, appealed momentarily to a society that had no theories at all.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

Nietzsche in one of his earliest works examines Wagner's theory and amplifies it by a rather casuistic interpretation of the evolution of art.

From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto

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