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  • a  having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism
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  • July 12, 2013
    Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts is a master of Jesuitical opinions: deceptive, misleading, su... Committee members in the House and Senate get so attached to the subject their committee handles ...
    July 13, 2013 - Daily Sparks Tribune
Quotes

  • Hillary Rodham Clinton in San Francisco Chronicle
    To which Clinton said, "Well, you know, Tim, we can have this Jesuitical argument about what exactly was meant."
  • Carl Bernstein in guardian.co.uk
    But as Bernstein writes, what magnified it out of proportion was Hillary's own pattern of "Jesuitical lying, evasion, and ...... stonewalling".
  • Joe Klein in Dallas Morning News
    Reminiscing about his 30-year friendship with Mr. Russert, Time magazine columnist Joe Klein describes the Sunday-morning-show host as "proudly, indelibly Irish - not only in his early beer-drinking years, but also in his more Jesuitical incarnation...

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