casuistic

About 0.07 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or related to casuistry, attempting to solve moral dilemmas by application of general rules.
2. adjective Similar to the arguments of casuists, particularly overly subtle, hair-splitting.

Similar words

jesuitic curialistic casal juridico-moral causidical legalistic consequentialistic causational situational caritive

Often followed by

law and approach laws question form method scale reasoning

Word family

casuist casuistical casuists