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
The last fundamental question in Ethics was, it will be remembered, the casuistic question.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
He had added a volume of Shaaloth-u-Tshuvoth, or "Questions and Answers" to the colossal casuistic literature of his race.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
On the other, practical mysticism, cherished into strength by a disgusting system of casuistic ethics.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
