casuist
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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
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
The boy's reason, for a moment, asserted its own majesty, at the broaching of this wild doctrine; and he returned an instant answer to the preacher which would have confounded a less practised casuist.
From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Thomas Cooper
That was spoken like Daniel Webster, the able jurist, and just man, and not like the Daniel Webster, whom I have before quoted, in these pages, as the casuist, and the sophist.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
I am but a poor casuist, Sir John, and I must refer you to Mr. Stanley for abler arguments than I can use.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
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