casuist
Example Sentences
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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
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
"Father distrusts the professor, and cautioned me not to discuss any religious questions, because he considers him a brilliant casuist."
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
Is the poisoned breath of the casuist to destroy the prosperity of those— "Quos neque Tydides, nec Larissæus Achilles, Non anni domuere decem, non mille carinæ!"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
I am but a poor casuist, Sir John, and I must refer you to Mr. Stanley for abler arguments than I can use.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
