devil's advocate
Example Sentences
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“On the devil’s-advocate side, what you don’t see in those videos is when they have these kinds of meetings and then they go up and nothing happens,” he said.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
Chappelle doesn’t couch these routines in winking inverted commas; nor does he wear a Gervais-alike smirk to signal devil’s-advocate intent.
From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2017
In a later phone conversation, Kelly confronted Stewart, arguing that he had taken devil’s-advocate questions out of context to make them seem like her positions.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2015
Having a veteran leader onboard can offer multiple benefits to a younger chief executive as far as time management, personal support and the devil's-advocate position that so many of us sometimes need.
From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2010
OK, here's the devil's-advocate question: Whatever the amount of money was, what is the moral justification for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a movie?
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2009
