They spent ten minutes trying to play the devil's advocate.

Let me play Devil's advocate, and try to shoot it down.

"All our friends were trying to protect us, playing devil's advocate," she said.

Someone at the back elected to play devil's advocate by asking the obvious question.

For the past two hours I have played the devil's advocate, there is no point in continuing.

Often the interviewer will need to play the devil's advocate, to put the other side's case forward.

It wasn't disagreement, just a way of playing devil's advocate.

Why would he play devil's advocate to his own work?

The tone was more that of a man playing devil's advocate.

Let's play devil's advocate for a second and explain why this deal would make sense at all.