casuistical

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His characters, men and women, act not through blind, instinctive passion, but with deliberate and intelligent force; they reason, and too often with casuistical subtlety, about their emotions.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

They become abominably shrewd in a degrading, casuistical strict-constructionism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

But certain casuistical questions arise in connection with this command.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

The tone is all the tone of cultivated society, the appeal is an appeal to the refined, casuistical intelligence.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

It has sometimes been thought of as an outward law, sometimes as an inward disposition; and each of these rival conceptions has developed a casuistical method of its own.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various