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

And thus, now and then, he would salt his argument with a pinch of casuistic wit.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

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.

It could not be discussed without that admixture of legality and ethics which delights a casuistic intellect.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John