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What is the adjective for casuists?

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casuistic
  1. Relating to casuistry (attempts to solve moral dilemmas by applying general rules).
  2. Overly subtle, hair-splitting.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The students seem drawn to its clarity and concreteness, and there is no shortage of casuistic questions concerning its intricacies.”
      “The appropriate response will not be found in a casuistic literature, or at least in a formalized casuistic approach.”
      “She thus tries to cover herself with a casuistic distinction that breaks down the moment you try to analyse what she means.”
casuistical
  1. casuistic
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But at least they would have been compelled to test their casuistical skills.”
      “Principles are, as it were, the ribbon we wrap around decisions we have already come to on the basis of particularistic casuistical reasoning.”
      “No very casuistical argument was needed to link the two, and it was neither surprising nor necessarily illogical that a bomber flight path was lighted up from Belgrade to Baghdad.”
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