Prevaricator

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prevaricator \Pre*var"i*ca`tor\, n. [L. praevaricator: cf. F.
     pr['e]varicateur.]
     1. One who prevaricates.
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     2. (Roman Law) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a


        defendant in a sham prosecution.
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     3. One who betrays or abuses a trust. --Prynne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prevaricator
       n : a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly [syn: {liar}]
           [ant: {square shooter}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  PREVARICATOR, n.  A liar in the caterpillar estate.