casuistical
- adjective
- /ˌkæz.juˈɪs.tɪ.kəl/
- Formal
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casuístico
- In his essay, he criticized the casuistical reasoning used to justify the controversial policy.
Examples
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I think he has some casuistical system worked out, wherein he can do anything so long as his motives are pure.
Fiction book (2001) -
Their commentaries, their expositions, their treatises on practical, casuistical, and experimental divinity are immeasurably superior to those of their adversaries in the seventeenth century.
Blog text (7) -
The key, I think, is to place him in the context of the casuistical tradition in which he writes.
Academic text (2001) -
Measure for Measure: Casuistry and Artistry by Melvin Seiden is an in-depth study of the characters of the play in order to show its casuistical nature.
Academic text (1991) -
The lawyer's casuistical arguments complicated the judge's decision on the case.
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Many found her casuistical approach to ethics more confusing than helpful during the debate.
Synonyms
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Using arguments that seem true but are meant to trick
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Seeming logical but actually wrong and meant to mislead
Using general moral rules to decide what is right in a specific case
Antonyms
How Casuistical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Casuistical comes from the Latin casus, meaning 'case' or 'situation', the same idea behind the English word 'case'. It first meant thinking about particular moral 'cases', so today casuistical describes very subtle or sometimes overly clever reasoning about ethical problems.