casuistic
- a of or relating to or practicing casuistry
overly subtle casuistic reasoning - a of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems
- The Minnesotan added the somewhat casuistic argument that a victory for Kennedy would appear to be a reform move while not actually guaranteeing changeand thus that the .
- After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back, on the casuistic ground that although Feininger had "intellectual ownership .