强词夺理

强词夺理 [qiǎng cí duó lǐ]

1. ■ use lame arguments and perverted logic; chop logic; distort the right and talk speciously; exaggerate by rhetoric; One's words are overbearing and (he) distorts reason.; pervert reason; reason fallaciously; resort to sophistry in self-justification; snatch a victory in argument; swear black is white; argue irrationally; turn things upside down by a stretch of the language; twist one's principles in order to finish an argument