casuistical

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Hence it is that he is copied even in the casual mistakes he made; and all the casuistical works recently published have inserted in their pages those mistakes.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by

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

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

Before I had begun the examination, I deemed myself a most candid, truth-observing, frank witness, and now I discovered that I was casuistical and "dodgy" as an Old Bailey lawyer.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James

Medieval economics was little more than a casuistical system of elaborate and somewhat artificial rules of conduct.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

The very "masses" in whose behalf Scaevola was calling on his fellow-citizens to undergo these casuistical gymnastics soon cared more for Bellona and Isis than for all the gods of Numa together.

From The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Carter, Jesse Benedict