casuistry
noun
specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, especially in questions of morality; fallacious or dishonest application of general principles; sophistry.
casuistries
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pluralof casuistry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It happened in Solnechnogorsk, 35 miles from Moscow and a world away from the casuistries of capitalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
However—by whatever casuistries I might have compassed it—I did remain.
From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett
He meant to draw attention to His sweeping aside of the Rabbinical casuistries of the law of the Sabbath.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
Under the instruction of the Countess's director the boy's conscience was enervated by the casuistries of Liguorianism and his devotion dulled by the imposition of interminable "pious practices."
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
They 'knew' when He did not seem to be trenching on their prerogatives, or driving His Ithuriel-spear through their traditional professions of orthodoxy and punctilious casuistries.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
