sophist
Example Sentences
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International politics is not best overseen by saints or sophists.
From Los Angeles Times
Kellyanne Conway, who carried Trump's 2016 campaign over the finish line before assuming a role as the administration's most facile TV sophist, would bring a range of experience and insight in national politics.
From Salon
Like Socrates exposing the sophists of Athens, Kierkegaard “sought to expose” false teachers of grand schemes, the “pseudo-philosophers.”
From Washington Post
He often fought the urge to raise his own voice from behind the kitchen door and tell her to shut up, especially when she called Master a sophist.
From Literature
The Greek sophists were learned men who made clever arguments that were, in fact, false.
From Washington Post
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