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 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
But in the course of time the casuistic method, originally a mere pastime, became the approved method of study, and produced what is known as pilpul.
From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.
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
