casuistic

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It would be easy enough to brush off this peculiar fact with some casuistic postmodernist explanation, such as saying that disenfranchised groups find empowerment through humor.

From Scientific American • Feb. 26, 2011

The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude."

From Time Magazine Archive

He is a casuistic moralist, if not a Shorter Catechist, as Mr Henley put it in his clever sonnet. 

From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

In the casuistic scale, therefore, those ideals must be written highest which prevail at the least cost, or by whose realization the least possible number of other ideals are destroyed.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

But, on the whole, it was only one manner of looking at it, nothing more, and there were plenty of materials for casuistic arguments in it.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de