prevaricator
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
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
Oliver refers to Archbishop Laud as a "deep-dyed liar," and in the Cathedral, at Ely, he once interrupted the services by calling the officiating clergyman, "a pious prevaricator."
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard
