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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sofist"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "one who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"masculine"
],
"word": "sòfist"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "one who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "sufista"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"sophist"
],
"word": "sophist"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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