casuistry

As an adjective punctilious

is strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions.

As a noun casuistry is

the process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics.

In pejorative terms the difference between travesty and casuistry

is that travesty is a grossly inferior imitation while casuistry is a specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.

As nouns the difference between travesty and casuistry

is that travesty is an absurd or grotesque misrepresentation while casuistry is the process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics.

As a verb travesty

is to make a travesty of; to parody.

As a noun casuistry

is the process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics.

As an adjective incredulous is

skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.

As nouns the difference between casuistry and sophism

is that casuistry is the process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules or cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics while sophism is a method of teaching using the techniques of philosophy and rhetoric.