Question

sophistry For lawyers and politicians, the practice of sophistry from time to time is almost unavoidable. sophistry*

Accepted Answer

Cleverly deceptive reasoning or argument. The Sophists were a group of Greek teachers of rhetoric and philosophy, famous during the 5th century B.C., who moved from town to town offering their teaching for a fee. The Sophists originally represented a respectable school of philosophy, but some critics claimed that they tried to persuade by means of clever but misleading arguments. The philosopher Plato wrote negatively about them, and the comic dramatist Aristophanes made fun of them, showing them making ridiculously fine distinctions about word meanings. We get our modern meanings of sophist

word	sophistry
definition	Cleverly deceptive reasoning or argument.
eg_sentence	For lawyers and politicians, the practice of sophistry from time to time is almost unavoidable.
explanation	The Sophists were a group of Greek teachers of rhetoric and philosophy, famous during the 5th century B.C., who moved from town to town offering their teaching for a fee. The Sophists originally represented a respectable school of philosophy, but some critics claimed that they tried to persuade by means of clever but misleading arguments. The philosopher Plato wrote negatively about them, and the comic dramatist Aristophanes made fun of them, showing them making ridiculously fine distinctions about word meanings. We get our modern meanings of sophist
IPA	sophistry*

Sophistry Time Sophists Philosophy Town Cleverly Deceptive Reasoning