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  • n  a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly

  • Gore ascribes a great many problems--his image as a prevaricator, his low standing as a leader--to his painful transition from Veep to standard bearer.
  • While acknowledging "copious evidence" in Payne's favor and "a wealth of evidence" that Smith was "an appalling and known prevaricator," they ruled against Payne.
  • In virtually any other Presidency, Alberto Gonzalesa clumsy prevaricator, a talentless hack and a dangerously indifferent advocate of the rule of lawwould be a dead man .
Quotes

  • Malcolm Turnbull in The Australian
    I think I have demonstrated through my life that I am decisive, I am active in the sense that I take action -- I am not a prevaricator,Mr Turnbull said. "I don't sort of sit back and go around in circles."

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