prevaricator

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.

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.