Jesuitical

[ jezh-oo-it-i-kuhl, jez-oo-, jez-yoo- ]

adjective

of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
(often lowercase) practicing casuistry or equivocation; using subtle or oversubtle reasoning; crafty; sly; intriguing.

Origin of Jesuitical

First recorded in 1590–1600; Jesuit + -ical

Also Jes·u·it·ic [jezh-oo-it-ik, jez-oo-, jez-yoo-] /ˌdʒɛʒ uˈɪt ɪk, ˌdʒɛz u-, ˌdʒɛz yu-/ .

When a reporter asked him a question, it would often elicit a series of Jesuitical responses.
President Cuomo Would’ve Been a Lion | Jonathan Alter | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST
This was a Jesuitical sort of answer, and Monsieur de Fontanges required further particulars.
Newton Forster | Captain Frederick Marryat
From 1894 to the end of the century the anti-Jesuitical campaign went on, increasing every year in bitterness and intensity.
The War Upon Religion | Rev. Francis A. Cunningham
See how perfidious, Machiavelic, and Jesuitical, is this horrible monster Reaction!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848 | Various
This short-sighted view resulted in a doctrine that was actually Jesuitical in application.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books | Robert Louis Stevenson

He palliated his conduct in a sophistical and Jesuitical manner.
History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) | Heinrich Graetz

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