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

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

She was not alone a dunce when it came to acting, she was a prevaricator as well.

From The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause by Morrison, Gertrude W.