casuistry
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This casuistry didn’t save him from a painful trial before a “denazification” court after the war.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
His decision for the court, handed down on Wednesday, is an incoherent mess of contradiction and casuistry, a travesty of legal writing that injects immense, gratuitous confusion into the law of equal protection.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2025
Hill's casuistry is all too common in memoirs written by or for statesmen seeking to sanitize their own blunders and lies.
From Salon • May 8, 2021
It is, they argue, based on casuistry, which gets a bad rap but historically was the idea that the ethics of a situation are based on the specifics of the actual case.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2018
By what species of casuistry does any person think it possible to put this forward as sane public policy?
From Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice by James F. Morton. Jr.
Vocabulary lists containing casuistry
Crime and Punishment
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The Wealth of Nations
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