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advocatus diaboli
[ ahd-vaw-kah-toos dee-ah-baw-lee ]
advocatus diaboli
/ ˌædvəˈkɑːtəs daɪˈæbəˌlaɪ /
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Example Sentences
Still, I must confess that, in advancing these arguments, I feel somewhat like an advocatus diaboli.
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Discussion of the eternal servant problem is apt to be one-sided; it was quite time that we heard from the advocatus diaboli.
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Then Arnold, or Arnold's secret advocatus diaboli, began upon another and quite different line.
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The dramatist played the advocatus diaboli very cleverly, and the other side felt that its case had been stated fairly.
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Jimmy, advocatus diaboli in the matter, put the case for wrong-doing as strongly as he could.
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