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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
Their casuistic minds also suggested that his list comprised Kings who had ruled different provinces simultaneously.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by George Tyrrell
Now the casuistic and argumentative element becomes more prominent; the dramatic aspect retires into the background, the philosophical teacher advances.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
And thus, now and then, he would salt his argument with a pinch of casuistic wit.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
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