Crossword clues for prevaricator
prevaricator
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prevaricator \Pre*var"i*ca`tor\, n. [L. praevaricator: cf. F. pr['e]varicateur.]
One who prevaricates.
(Roman Law) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.
One who betrays or abuses a trust.
--Prynne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French prevaricator and directly from Latin praevaricator "sham accuser; unfaithful advocate," agent noun from past participle stem of praevaricari (see prevaricate).
Wiktionary
n. agent noun of prevaricate; one who prevaricates.
WordNet
n. a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly [syn: liar] [ant: square shooter]
Usage examples of "prevaricator".
An especially grotesque form of pathological lying, named after Baron von Munchausen, the world-class prevaricator.
Not your ordinary prevaricator, who skirts along the coast of truth, keeping ever within sight of the headlands and promontories of probability-whose excursions are limited to short, fair-weather reaches into the ocean of imagination, and who paddles for port as if the devil were after him whenever a capful of wind threatens a storm of exposure.
If General Pickering the prevaricator had accepted such training, he would an hour ago have been been finished with decrypting the current MAGIC, analyzing the current MAGIC, and shredding the ten pages of verbose Japanese bullshit and putting it in the burn bag.