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sophist

noun

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A person who uses clever but misleading reasoning; also a member of an ancient Greek teaching tradition.

The debater sounded like a sophist when he defended every contradiction with wordplay.

Dictionary practice example.

Another speaker acted like a sophist, cleverly claiming that anyone who criticized an existing rule must oppose the society itself.