casuist

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Beneath the glamorous raiment one can also glimpse the wily casuist who accepts the flimsiest excuse for invading France and courts his future wife knowing he has already won her as a spoil of war.

From Time Magazine Archive

I feel only pity," concluded Stimson, "for the casuist who would dismiss the Nazi leaders because 'they were not warned it was a crime.'

From Time Magazine Archive

In his "farce to make you sad" Ghelderode satirizes every brand of casuist who ever hoped to remold the world�and manages to reduce all of history to irony.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Here is the letter; and if I were as clever a casuist as Colonel Bramleigh thought me, I should perhaps know whether I have the right to read it or not."

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James

"Except when it's a case of selling patent medicines, I'm not a casuist."

From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold