jesuitical

IPA: dʒˈɛʒuɪtɪkʌɫ

Root Word: Jesuitical

Examples of "jesuitical" in Sentences

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, jesuitical?
I care, he said, and I steeled myself for a jesuitical parsing of Part X of the Rules of the Senate of Canada.
The Bishop's apology strikes me as--excuse the term--"jesuitical" in its careful avoidance of the central issue.
If they attempt “clarification”, as Anderson is doing, they come across as jesuitical word-parers or philosophical mugwumps.
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."
This counter-reformation jesuitical "military bureaucracy" model of the clergy and religious is a fundamental structural problem with the church today, and the solution cannot be reduced to simply rooting out the bad.
We cannot be as reasonably sure that the old conditions of men's relations in society are in whatever new shape destined to return, as we are sure that it was a good thing to prevent a feudal and jesuitical government like Austria from retaining a purely obstructive power in Europe, and a jesuitical government like France from establishing the same obstructive kind of power in America.