Someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious.
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Examples for "sophist "
Examples for "sophist "
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.
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.
6 Beshrew me, 'tis a wary and subtle deceiver, this same casuist love.
7 And it was a pretty trick, you will admit, casuist that you are.
8 What casuist will find the heart to deny him so innocent a pleasure?
9 The ethics of my answer I leave to the casuist .
10 I had not thought I entertained so close a casuist in Mr Henry Wilder.
11 The sword, father, is the best theologian, the best casuist .
12 As clear an explanation as the shrewdest casuist could desire!
13 Here am I arguing with myself like a very casuist !
14 The city casuist might have smiled at the major premise-andlaughed at the ingenuous conclusion.
15 Gregory, what a casuist you might have been had not nature made you a villain!
16 I would have you great, but in the senate, not a wretched casuist at the Bar.
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