Thesaurus / prevaricator
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The praise of his friends round the Oxford tea-tables turned him into a consistent prevaricator.
ROWLANDSON'S OXFORDA. HAMILTON GIBBS"It's—it's ripped: torn across the skirt," floundered the Little Red Doctor, who is a weak, unreliable prevaricator at best.
OUR SQUARE AND THE PEOPLE IN ITSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMSMr. Rabbit, you are all these—a lazy, shiftless sneak, thief and prevaricator.'
MOTHER WEST WIND'S CHILDRENTHORNTON W. BURGESSJohn tried to buy off the opposition with promises, but no one would trust the champion prevaricator of the age.
THE CHAUTAUQUAN, VOL. III, JANUARY 1883THE CHAUTAUQUAN LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLEHe will surely be heard from again some day, as he has the elements that go to make up a successful prevaricator.
A GUEST AT THE LUDLOW AND OTHER STORIESEDGAR WILSON (BILL) NYEI'm not after sayin' me father was a prevaricator—no, indeed!
OVER THE SEAS FOR UNCLE SAMELAINE STERNEHe was not willingly a prevaricator, and hated thoroughly to make explanations concerning it.
SISTER CARRIETHEODORE DREISERBut an Englishman is nothing if not a prevaricator; he calls it being scrupulously truthful.
WHEN GHOST MEETS GHOSTWILLIAM FREND DE MORGANEverything this girl said made her more of a prevaricator, even though she might be innocent of crime.
THE MYSTERY GIRLCAROLYN WELLSWe do not like the double-faced prevaricator, who cozens both sides, and deals in words that palter in a double sense.
CHARLES SUMNER; HIS COMPLETE WORKS, VOLUME 6 (OF 20)CHARLES SUMNERWORDS RELATED TO PREVARICATOR
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