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casuistry

[kazh-oo-uh-stree] / ˈkæʒ u ə stri /


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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

But, given that the case is about the casuistry of what it means to fill out a form, Bush might be more on the side of Kafka on this one.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 15, 2015

The predominance of the subtle intellect of Greece, and the multiplication of rhetoricians, had converted the philosophy into a school of disputation and of casuistry.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole




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