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
The theory, casuistic and subtle, appealed momentarily to a society that had no theories at all.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
His acquaintance with the vast casuistic literature of his race was of the shallowest.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
These "intellectuals" entered the lists against religious fanaticism and casuistic methods, seeking to replace them by liberal ideas and scientific research.
From The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Slouschz, Nahum
