強詞奪理
简 强词夺理 · 繁 強詞奪理Meanings
- to twist words and force logic (idiom)
- sophistry
- loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument
- shoving false arguments down people's throats
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3–2–2–3 · qiang3 ci2 duo2 li3
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koeng5 ci4 dyut6 lei5
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- (idiomatic) to use lame arguments and perverted logic; shoving false arguments down people's throats; sophistry
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