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强词夺理

qiǎng cí duó lǐ

4-character word Traditional 強詞奪理

What 强词夺理 means

1. to twist words and force logic (idiom)
2. sophistry
3. loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument
4. shoving false arguments down people's throats

The characters in 强词夺理

• 强qiángstrong; powerful; better
• 词cíword; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty…
• 夺duóto seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of
• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence

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