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• n  argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading
• n  moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas

• In seeking to counsel such persons, I have found myself resorting to all sorts of casuistry and rationalization in the hope that I might keep faith both with Your Holiness and with .
• But that involved a good deal of fancy footwork and casuistry.
• CCTV wouldn't be CCTV without fakement, casuistry and effrontery.

Quotes

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• Christopher Hitchens in Raw Story
  I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture,Hitchens wrote after enduring the procedure.