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Synonyms

casuistic

American  
[kazh-oo-is-tik] / ˌkæʒ uˈɪs tɪk /
Also casuistical

adjective

  1. pertaining to casuists or casuistry.

  2. oversubtle; intellectually dishonest; sophistical.

    casuistic distinctions.


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Etymology

Origin of casuistic

First recorded in 1650–60; casuist + -ic

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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 Edgar Saltus

"My casuistic knowledge is not sufficient to solve such a question reasonably."

From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

The last fundamental question in Ethics was, it will be remembered, the casuistic question.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

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