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
In the casuistic scale, therefore, those ideals must be written highest which prevail at the least cost, or by whose realization the least possible number of other ideals are destroyed.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
The Jansenists, however, endeavored to meet the Papal condemnation with casuistic subtlety.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)
Let them be called respectively the psychological question, the metaphysical question, and the casuistic question.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
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