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Devil's advocate   /dˈɛvəlz ˈædvəkət/   Listen
Devil's advocate

noun
1.
Someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument.






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"Devil's advocate" Quotes from Famous Books



... century (perhaps the very notablest), was that council of clergymen, horror-struck at the idea of any diminution in our dread of hell, at which the last of English clergymen whom one would have expected to see in such a function, rose as the devil's advocate; to tell us how impossible it was we could get on ...
— The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin



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