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 philosopher must be a conservative, and in the construction of his casuistic scale must put the things most in accordance with the customs of the community on top.

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

But this world of ours is made on an entirely different pattern, and the casuistic question here is most tragically practical.

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

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