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

But in the course of time the casuistic method, originally a mere pastime, became the approved method of study, and produced what is known as pilpul.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.

In a spirit of reverence they followed the recital of the Haggadah, as the patriarch intoned in a feeble but impressive voice, the queer, outlandish, Talmudic, and casuistic interpretations of the festival.

From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich

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