sophistical
Speech parts
1. sophistical - Adjective
2. sophistical - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
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The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
Gladstone speaking of Disraeli A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Please to back up with logical argument or look like sophistical PR flack.
It meets him by accepting his preferences, his prejudices, his sense of what matters, and then slowly turning his sophistical delight in speeches into a commitment to philosophy.