SOPHIST
- one who use sophisms [n -S]
- a. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation b. person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach
- philosopher
- captious or fallacious reasoner
- person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly
- one that uses sophisms [n SOPHISTS]