sophist vs wiseacre

sophist

noun
  • One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument. 

  • One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece. 

  • A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning. 

wiseacre

noun
  • One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart. 

verb
  • To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack. 

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