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prevaricator
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prevaricator has 1 sense
- prevaricator(n = noun.person) liar - a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly; Array has particulars: false witness, perjurer, fabricator, fibber, storyteller
is a kind of beguiler, cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster
Derived form verb prevaricate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
prevaricator, n. [L. praevaricator: cf. F. prévaricateur.].
- One who prevaricates. [1913 Webster]
- A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. [1913 Webster]
- One who betrays or abuses a trust. Prynne. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
prevaricator
Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, captious critic, caviler, consummate liar, dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, fibster, habitual liar, hairsplitter, hedger, liar, mystificator, mystifier, mythomaniac, nitpicker, obscurantist, palterer, pathological liar, perjurer, pettifogger, picayune critic, pseudologist, pseudologue, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, quibbler, shuffler, spinner of yarns, storyteller, tergiversator, yarn spinner, yarner
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