devil's advocate

Playing devil’s advocate: He may be responding to a new person in his home who is being kind and helpful.

On the contrary, it will encourage students to explore dissenting ideas, even if only as a “devil’s advocate.”

A devil’s advocate might argue that these assumptions themselves are a characteristic of a late bull market, when everyone is kicking themselves for not being 100% — or 150% — invested in stocks.

So to play devil’s advocate, we’ve already lost to gerrymandering in the U.S. and California just doesn’t know it.

Sometimes they play devil’s advocate.