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PREVARICATOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prevaricator mean?
• PREVARICATOR (noun)
The noun PREVARICATOR has 1 sense:
1. a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
Familiarity information: PREVARICATOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
liar; prevaricator
Hypernyms ("prevaricator" is a kind of...):
beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prevaricator"):
false witness; perjurer (a person who deliberately gives false testimony)
fabricator; fibber; storyteller (someone who tells lies)
Instance hyponyms:
Ananias (a habitual liar (after a New Testament character who was struck dead for lying))
Derivation:
prevaricate (be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information)
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