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prevaricator

[ pri-var-i-key-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who speaks falsely; liar.
  2. a person who speaks so as to avoid the precise truth; quibbler; equivocator.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of prevaricator1

1535–45; < Latin ±è°ù²¹±ð±¹Äå°ù¾±³¦Äå³Ù´Ç°ù; prevaricate, -tor
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The prevaricator in chief has also essentially made liars of those around him.

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He loved “the game of cops and robbers,†he recounted, and became an expert prevaricator.

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Santos has styled himself as a theatrical prevaricator and a maximalist.

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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.

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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.

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