强词夺理 chicanery - Chinese-English Dictionary

强词夺理

強詞奪理

qiǎng cí duó lǐ /qiáng cí duó lǐ

keung5 chi4 dyut6 lei5

chicanery

Somewhat infrequent

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sophistry / shoving false arguments down people's throats / to twist words and force logic (idiom) / loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument / powerful words devoid of sense (idiom) / chicanery / to argue illogically /

Adso: chicanery

Cantofish: powerful words devoid of sense (idiom); sophistry; loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument; shoving false arguments down people's throats; to argue illogically

MDBG: to twist words and force logic (idiom); sophistry; loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument; shoving false arguments down people's throats

LDC: chicanery; sophistication; stickle

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