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Meanings of sophist in English
Synonyms
Examples for "casuist"
Examples for "casuist"
1
This was the cry of honesty; not the counsel of a casuist.
2
In all that comes between, every man must be his own casuist.
3
He was no subtle casuist, and found himself without words to reply.
4
I am not, dear lady, casuist enough to answer you that question.
5
Upon my word, Julia, you are quite a casuist on this subject.
Usage of sophist in English
1
The superficial sophist says: Prostitution always has existed and always will exist.
2
We have had the sophist who defends cruelty, and calls it masculinity.
3
We have had the sophist who defends idleness, and calls it art.
4
Favorinus, a rhetorician and sophist, who flourished in Gaul, c. 125 A.D.
5
I thought this reply worthy of a thorough sophist, and laughed heartily.
6
He was no coward or sophist to argue himself out of danger.
7
A sophist is a forger, and this forger sometimes brutalizes good sense.
8
No, I am not a sophist, Evelyn; any thing else than that!
9
The old sophist haunts me even at the moment of my death.
10
Godwin Peak never tried to play the sophist with this fact.
11
That man is the slipperiest sophist I have ever met with.
12
You talk abstractions of heart and love like such a sophist.
13
She is no sophist, apparently, since you say she can see the truth.
14
Make yourself easy, I shall return to you an accomplished sophist.
15
O wretched sophist, unworthy driver, out hat is off to you.
16
I know that you, dear sophist, will soon console yourself with other girls.
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