casuistry

While they will certainly provide the legal casuistry for their opinion, let’s not be played for fools: The Supreme Court’s impending repeal of Roe will be owed to more than judicial argumentation.

Hill's casuistry is all too common in memoirs written by or for statesmen seeking to sanitize their own blunders and lies.

Johnson’s Tory fundamentalists, wrapped as they are in the casuistry of no deal, may be appalled by him talking to Corbyn.

That brings me to the concept of casuistry: thinking about ethical problems by assessing a spectrum of cases to which they apply.

Ironically, he cited the phrase “Jesuitical casuistry” in his argument, apparently unaware that he was employing it.