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prevaricator

[pri-var-i-kay-ter] / prɪˈvær ɪˌkeɪ tər /


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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

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.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 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

In a phrase, she was the most adorable combination of the prevaricator, the jilt and the coquette I have ever encountered.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell


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