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prevaricator
[pri-var-i-key-ter]
noun
a person who speaks falsely; liar.
a person who speaks so as to avoid the precise truth; quibbler; equivocator.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of prevaricator1
Example Sentences
The prevaricator in chief has also essentially made liars of those around him.
He loved “the game of cops and robbers,” he recounted, and became an expert prevaricator.
Santos has styled himself as a theatrical prevaricator and a maximalist.
America has had prevaricators in the Oval Office before, but never one who has been at war with the truth as regularly, on so many different subjects.
Yet many Britons confess they don’t really know Truss, not the way they knew Johnson — former London mayor, newspaper columnist, Brexit cheerleader, serial prevaricator.
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