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

But there must be no mistake about the new setting of the term; no casuistic ambiguity must be encouraged.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Sellars, Roy Wood

If the heap of things demanded proved on inspection less chaotic than at first they seemed, if they furnished their own relative test and measure, then the casuistic problem would be solved.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

"My casuistic knowledge is not sufficient to solve such a question reasonably."

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von