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
You are a prevaricator, for you tell things which are not so.
From Mother West Wind's Children by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.