Sophist

/sˈɒfɪst/

/sˈɑːfɪst/

[noun]

Sophist

[NOUN]

someone that is skilled in devious argumentation

synonyms : casuist

a teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in ancient Greek with a skeptical attitude

Examples

1. It comes from "The Sophist."

2. Sometimes they take on the appearance of statesmen and sometimes of sophists.

3. This is a position of the sophists.

4. He was a brilliant man apparently, he had been trained by the great rhetorician and sophist Gorgias and he was also in the circle of Socrates, along with Plato and Xenophon and various other bright young men of the upper classes in Athens.