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Casuistic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to casuists or casuistry.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Relating to casuistry (attempts to solve moral dilemmas by applying general rules).

adj. Overly subtle, hair-splitting.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to casuists or casuistry.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Pertaining to casuists or casuistry; relating to cases of conscience, or to doubts concerning conduct; hence, over-subtle; intellectually dishonest; sophistical.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems

adj. of or relating to or practicing casuistry

Word Usage

"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."

Equivalent

casuistical

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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