casuistical

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They become abominably shrewd in a degrading, casuistical strict-constructionism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

A Jesuit, of whom she sought counsel in her dilemma, suggested a casuistical compromise.

From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon

The article makes no attempt to give a detailed, casuistical examination of the matter of ethical theory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

His characters, men and women, act not through blind, instinctive passion, but with deliberate and intelligent force; they reason, and too often with casuistical subtlety, about their emotions.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

Instead of exercising their power of reason they exert their powers of sophistry, and divide and subdivide every subject with such casuistical minuteness, that those who are not convinced, are almost invariably confounded.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John