casuistry

Example Sentences

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This casuistry didn’t save him from a painful trial before a “denazification” court after the war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

His decision for the court, handed down on Wednesday, is an incoherent mess of contradiction and casuistry, a travesty of legal writing that injects immense, gratuitous confusion into the law of equal protection.

From Slate • Jun. 18, 2025

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

From Salon • May 8, 2021

With his casuistry, Whitman seems intent on convincing himself, more than anyone, that this health regimen will work.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2017

Men who reason with the greatest clearness on all other matters, often become insanely illogical when a guilty conscience asks for soothing casuistry.

From A Desperate Voyage by Knight, Edward Frederick