casuistical

Example Sentences

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He would never compromise or palter with the truth, either by way of suppression, or exaggeration, or casuistical refinement.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring

The article makes no attempt to give a detailed, casuistical examination of the matter of ethical theory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

He is an elderly man with a kind manner; type of the eighteenth century casuistical parson.

From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Granville-Barker, Harley

They become abominably shrewd in a degrading, casuistical strict-constructionism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

These two equalised bundles of hay might have held in suspense the casuistical ass of Sterne, till he had died from want of a motive to choose either.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac