Example sentences for: jesuitical

How can you use “jesuitical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Whatever else may be said about them, both "Talmudic" and "Jesuitical" carry connotations of great learning and meticulous attention to argument.

  • It is common to regard "Jesuitical" and "Talmudic" as synonymous, but this does an injustice to both words.

  • To characterize a lie as an "economy of truth" would be a Jesuitical formulation.

  • Imagine it: In the daytime, Jesuitical preparations for long uphill organizing drives.

  • William Safire argues that "Jesuitical" has by now developed a sense devoid of any overtones of prevarication: "subtle, intricate, moralistic reasoning, informed by a rigorous logic" is his definition.


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