How To Use Jesuitical In A Sentence
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For decades, ‘Jesuitical’ became a term of abuse, signifying mental reservation, prevarication, and casuistry.
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On what is called the Jesuitical doctrine of Pious Frauds, it was voted that they are wrong, although on the similar question whether it is ever allowable to tell lies the members agreed with military men, statesmen and others that occasion may arise to justify them.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868
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Then, just after you branded me as Jesuitical, I turned the conversation to Lucile, saying that I wished to see what I could see.
CHAPTER 10
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Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
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Thus, to all her mother's incitement she replied merely by such phrases as are wrongly called Jesuitical -- wrongly, because the
Albert Savarus
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Jesuitical education
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Garnet was accused of knowing about the plot beforehand and not reporting it to the authorities. he was accused of Jesuitical equivocation.
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He invented the word "Jesuitical", in his Provincial Letters, and in those letters single-handedly created the myth of the crafty Jesuit.
California Literary Review
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Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
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He is bringing back the problem of jesuitical thinking, a mode of thought characterized by "dissembling and equivocating in a manner once associated with Jesuits.
Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame
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Essentially a moral man, his rigid New England morality has suffered a sea change and developed into the morality of the master-man of affairs, equally rigid, equally uncompromising, but essentially Jesuitical in that he believes in doing wrong that right may come of it.
THEFT
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As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure -- namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle-class in its best moments -- subtler even than the understanding of its victims: -- a repeated proof that "instinct" is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered.
Beyond Good and Evil
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Arguments should not be pitched as if the judges were normal people with normal life experience; eschew plain common sense in favor of the kind of monkish jesuitical hair-splitting scholasticism that would make Plato’s headspin.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Oral Argument — Common Mistakes:
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Even the slightest interface aspect could trigger a heated debate, with adherents of opposing solutions arguing with near-Jesuitical intensity.
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'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. '
Gladys, the Reaper
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Instead, Brown has treated us to a tortuous, Jesuitical argument so self-contradictory it merits its own reprimand.
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It was designing of him, what Brother Polycarp would have called Jesuitical, and it troubled him, the deceit.
At Swim, Two Boys