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

These "intellectuals" entered the lists against religious fanaticism and casuistic methods, seeking to replace them by liberal ideas and scientific research.

From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum

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

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