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
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
The world has passed it by, and left all its subtle casuistries and painfully microscopic studies of the letter of Scripture—with utter oblivion of its spirit—left them all severely and wisely alone.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren
Nay, the nicer casuistries of this principle had been latterly discussed.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey
Yet we shrug our shoulders at their uncouth or outlandish names; we assume that from their chairs there issued naught but rhetoric, casuistries and fallacies, and that their multitudinous disciples were silly moths.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt
