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
On the other, practical mysticism, cherished into strength by a disgusting system of casuistic ethics.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
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
The Jansenists, however, endeavored to meet the Papal condemnation with casuistic subtlety.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
