Definition of "casuistic" []

• Of or relating to casuists or casuistry. (adjective)

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• "H.W. Fowler wrote about them incisively in his 1926 Dictionary of Modern English Usage, though most of the specific words he considered — such as casuistic and casuistical, diabolic and diabolical — don’t trouble us anymore."
• "One additional note, though -- please do not write me e-mails asking casuistic questions about whether or not it's okay to read something or other during Lent (I've gotten a few in the past)."
• "Logical arguments have attacked war since the dawn of time, yet war has always had its casuistic defenders."