advocatus diaboli

How to use advocatus diaboli in a sentence

• Still, I must confess that, in advancing these arguments, I feel somewhat like an advocatus diaboli.

  A Librarian's Open Shelf | Arthur E. Bostwick

• Discussion of the eternal servant problem is apt to be one-sided; it was quite time that we heard from the advocatus diaboli.

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, February 14, 1917 | Various

• Then Arnold, or Arnold's secret advocatus diaboli, began upon another and quite different line.

  In Luck at Last | Walter Besant

• The dramatist played the advocatus diaboli very cleverly, and the other side felt that its case had been stated fairly.

  Our Stage and Its Critics | "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

• Jimmy, advocatus diaboli in the matter, put the case for wrong-doing as strongly as he could.

  The Smuggler's Cave | George A. Birmingham