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Significados de sophist en inglés

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Someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious.

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Ancient Greek teacher who taught “virtue” to young statesmen and nobles, often using philosophy and rhetoric.

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Examples for "casuist"
Examples for "casuist"
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This was the cry of honesty; not the counsel of a casuist.
Monsieur Lecoq, v. 1
2
In all that comes between, every man must be his own casuist.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I
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He was no subtle casuist, and found himself without words to reply.
The Silver Horde
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I am not, dear lady, casuist enough to answer you that question.
Rattlin the Reefer
5
Upon my word, Julia, you are quite a casuist on this subject.
Tales for Fifteen; Or, Imagination and Heart
Uso de sophist en inglés
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The superficial sophist says: Prostitution always has existed and always will exist.
Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers
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We have had the sophist who defends cruelty, and calls it masculinity.
All Things Considered
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We have had the sophist who defends idleness, and calls it art.
All Things Considered
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Favorinus, a rhetorician and sophist, who flourished in Gaul, c. 125 A.D.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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I thought this reply worthy of a thorough sophist, and laughed heartily.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
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He was no coward or sophist to argue himself out of danger.
The Half-Hearted
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A sophist is a forger, and this forger sometimes brutalizes good sense.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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No, I am not a sophist, Evelyn; any thing else than that!
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
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The old sophist haunts me even at the moment of my death.
Sympathy for the devil
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Godwin Peak never tried to play the sophist with this fact.
Born in Exile
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That man is the slipperiest sophist I have ever met with.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
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You talk abstractions of heart and love like such a sophist.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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She is no sophist, apparently, since you say she can see the truth.
Halcyone
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Make yourself easy, I shall return to you an accomplished sophist.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
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O wretched sophist, unworthy driver, out hat is off to you.
The new yorker
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I know that you, dear sophist, will soon console yourself with other girls.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
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