casuist
noun
an oversubtle or disingenuous reasoner, especially in questions of morality.
Example Sentences
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This fact may be casuistically explained away; but is not less an obstacle to all progress and it will be one of the principal dangers threatening Al-Islam.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Catholicism owes much to the Jesuits; and, casuistically speaking, the Jesuits owe their existence to a broken leg.
From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
The scholar of the Renaissance, half-genius, half-charlatan, would have casuistically defended or apologised for his errors, and through the wreathing mists of sophistry would have shot forth ever and anon some ray of truth.
From Robert Browning by Edward Dowden
I replied casuistically that I would endeavour to exclude from my speeches the slightest reference to Hartington, but that he was really too trying.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Critics may point out flaws in this story, which is casuistically vulnerable.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
