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PREVARICATOR

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has lied or who lies repeatedly

Synonyms:

liar; prevaricator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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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