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
Then with the rise of the visionary projects just mentioned the gravest doubts began to agitate the fertile and casuistic mind of the Lady Superior.
From Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire by Jenkins, Edward
I was sure of Alisanda's constancy, and yet did not know what pressure their casuistic minds might bring to bear against her will.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames
"My casuistic knowledge is not sufficient to solve such a question reasonably."
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
