jesuitical

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  1. Designing; crafty; politic; insinuating: an opprobrious term. Though for fashion's sake called a parliament, yet by a jesuitical sleight not acknowledged, though called so. Milton, Eikonoklastes, § 13. He has been accused of a jesuitical tendency, of a disposition to find arguments in favor of acts after the acts have been performed. N. A. Rev., CXLII. 589.

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  • "She was a wrinkled as an old paper bag, an autocrat, hard-shelled and jesuitical, a pouncy old hawk of a Bolshevik, her small ribboned gray feet immobile on the shoekit and stool Simon had made in the manual-training class, dingy old wool Winnie whose bad smell filled the flat on the cushion beside her." —  Anecdotal Evidence
  • The lower-case "j" in "jesuitical" threw me - a put-down, like Eliot's lower-case "j" in —  Anecdotal Evidence
  • The literal-minded spell-check software won't recognize "jesuitical," "pouncy," —  Anecdotal Evidence
  • (Empire Lite), the Iraq War, and a jesuitical apologist for torture (coercive interrogation). —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
  • Meanwhile we who have the mountain as our ecclesial URL play bingo, complain about hierarchy, and research jesuitical recipes for strict-fast chocolate cake. —  Second Terrace
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