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
Ostentatiously grooming his mustache and eyebrows while peering into a hand-held mirror, he is the ultimate braggart and prevaricator, itching for a comeuppance.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2010
Formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public Acts in the University of Oxford; not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, Eng.—Webster.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
