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View synonyms for prevaricator
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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prevaricator1
1535–45; < Latin praevāricātor; prevaricate, -tor
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Example Sentences
The praise of his friends round the Oxford tea-tables turned him into a consistent prevaricator.
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"It's—it's ripped: torn across the skirt," floundered the Little Red Doctor, who is a weak, unreliable prevaricator at best.
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Mr. Rabbit, you are all these—a lazy, shiftless sneak, thief and prevaricator.'
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John tried to buy off the opposition with promises, but no one would trust the champion prevaricator of the age.
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He will surely be heard from again some day, as he has the elements that go to make up a successful prevaricator.
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