casuistic
Example Sentences
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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
The casuistic, practical, individualistic ethics of Confucius were radically changed to general principles of ideal conduct, with the addition of æsthetic elements, and a strong emphasis laid on group loyalty rather than on filial piety.
From Japan and the California Problem by Toyokichi Iyenaga
The theory, casuistic and subtle, appealed momentarily to a society that had no theories at all.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
Her casuistic responses which were asked for in two moral situations, verbally presented, Test XXI, were rather vacillating, but evidently sound.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by William Healy
