prevaricator
Americannoun
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a person who speaks falsely; liar.
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a person who speaks so as to avoid the precise truth; quibbler; equivocator.
Etymology
Origin of prevaricator
1535–45; < Latin praevāricātor; prevaricate, -tor
Example Sentences
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He loved “the game of cops and robbers,” he recounted, and became an expert prevaricator.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024
Santos has styled himself as a theatrical prevaricator and a maximalist.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2023
Not the way they knew Boris Johnson — former London mayor, newspaper columnist, colorful orator, serial prevaricator — when he took office just a few years ago.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2022
He was “a chronic prevaricator whose lies were so gaudy and wrapped around they might have been a medieval tapestry of what almost or never happened.”
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2010
Say-gulls," replied the prevaricator; then to himself: "Not a sight or a sound of them!
From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
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