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

He should not need have pursued me through the various shapes of a divine, a doctor, a head of a college, a professor, a prevaricator, a mathematician.—Bp.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer