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
With his casuistry, Whitman seems intent on convincing himself, more than anyone, that this health regimen will work.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2017
Such subterfuges show a measure of sensibility, for a hardened liar would despise the shifts, and are curious as illustrations of the childish conscience and its unlearnt casuistry.
From Children's Ways by Sully, James
Vocabulary lists containing casuistry
Crime and Punishment
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The Wealth of Nations
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