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the use ofcleverargumentstotrickpeople 诡辩术SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesCheating & tricking - anti-fraud
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- deceive
- fiddle
- flannel
- have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
- havesomeoneon
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- honeyfuggle
- hustle
- pull a fast oneidiom
- pull the wool oversomeone'seyesidiom
- punk
- putsomethingacross/oversomeone
- putsomethingon
- racket
See more results » (Definition ofcasuistryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- But it does strike me, that the present casuistry of society upon the question of duelling, is profoundly wrong, and wrong by manifest injustice.
- It is necessary merely for me, as my learned friend has aptly expressed it, to disentangle the actual facts of the case from the web of casuistry that has been woven around them.
- It was a question of casuistry which might, perhaps, have puzzled a finer moral sense than Stephen's.
- My answer is simple and free from all attempts at casuistry: simply because we must.
Examplesofcasuistrycasuistry Casuistry, the moral theology devoted to resolving problematic cases, offered general rules to swearing lawfully.From theCambridge English Corpus Review of thecasuistryregistered from 1990 to 1999.From theCambridge English Corpus Considered alone, "middle principles,"casuistry, and the like morally enlighten but do not morally enflame.From theCambridge English Corpus Whatcasuistryaccomplishes in this manner is not ontologically decisive.From theCambridge English Corpus The importance of circumstantial and prudential considerations tocasuistrymeant that what was generally unlawful might be rendered permissible in individual cases.From theCambridge English Corpus This excellent book provides the best evidence yet for reconsidering the merits ofcasuistryfor clinical care.From theCambridge English Corpus And what can medical ethics premier commonsense philosophies, communitarianism andcasuistry, tell us about this?From theCambridge English Corpus Casuistry, too, has an apparent presumption in favor of the status quo, as if socially accepted traditions cannot sometimes be ethically defective.From theCambridge English Corpus Bioethics as methodological case resolution: specification, specified principlism, andcasuistry.From theCambridge English Corpus There is no denying thatcasuistryremains a useful tool for deciding what to do in many of the perplexing situations facing healthcare.From theCambridge English Corpus That is, a communitariancasuistryis a kind of post hoc aid in developing and recasting a self-understanding that legitimates certain solutions.From theCambridge English Corpus Casuistryis brought forward to highlight and outline clear cases.From theCambridge English Corpus This need was fulfilled bycasuistry, a branch of moral theology which devoted itself to the resolving of ethical dilemmas in particular cases.From theCambridge English Corpus Reducing normative bias in health technology assessment: interactive evaluation andcasuistry.From theCambridge English Corpus This was, after all, an age well versed incasuistry.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/casuistry## |