casuist
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I feel only pity," concluded Stimson, "for the casuist who would dismiss the Nazi leaders because 'they were not warned it was a crime.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Beneath the glamorous raiment one can also glimpse the wily casuist who accepts the flimsiest excuse for invading France and courts his future wife knowing he has already won her as a spoil of war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Zeal of the Land Busy is a casuist of no mean ability, and is equal to the task of finding an exception to his own rule.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
All laws are general; none are invariable; I am not writing as a moralist or casuist.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
A sturdy catechizing in the interest of some popular dogma will generally give the casuist an apparent advantage over the seeker of knowledge for itself alone.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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