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
But, on the whole, it was only one manner of looking at it, nothing more, and there were plenty of materials for casuistic arguments in it.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de
His acquaintance with the vast casuistic literature of his race was of the shallowest.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
And thus, now and then, he would salt his argument with a pinch of casuistic wit.
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
