Meaning & use
prevaricator
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A person who speaks evasively or lies in order to avoid the truth.
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The witness was dismissed as a prevaricator whose story kept changing.
Colleagues grew tired of the prevaricator who never gave a straight answer.
A note on using this word
More formal and literary than "liar," often implying deliberate evasiveness rather than outright falsehood.
Words with a similar meaning
liarequivocator
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Words with an opposite meaning
truth-teller
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