Answer:
To make it easier for someone to win an argument by refuting something different than what was being discussed.
Explanation:
Expresses a negative connotative meaning (:
Josh played basketball for two years.
Josh used to play basketball ball.
Defiantly. Profusely is big, perfunctory is lazily doing something, petulantly is to do something with a bad temper, and defiantly is doing something even though you don't want to