casuists in English
noun
1
a person who uses clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; a sophist.
My impression of him as a witness was that he was an inveterate casuist to say the least, and at times I was in wholehearted agreement with the claimant's representative's suggestions during cross examination that he was a stranger to the truth.
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1. The Apologie pour les Casuistes contre les calomnies des jansénistes (Defence of casuists against the calumnies of Jansenists) by the Jesuit Georges Pirot (1599–1659), published anonymously in Paris in 1657, was censured by the Faculty of Theology of the Sorbonne; two years later (after the author’s death), the book was condemned by the