Meanings
nounprevaricator (plural prevaricators)
plural prevaricators
- One who prevaricates.
It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214 - historicalAn orator at the University of Cambridge fulfilling a similar function to the terrae filius at Oxford.
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinpraevaricator
- Englishprevaricator
From prevaricate + -or or Latin praevaricator: compare French prévaricateur.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch draaier, veinzer
- draaierone who prevaricates
- veinzerone who prevaricates
French prévaricateur, prévaricatrice
- prévaricateurone who prevaricates
- prévaricatriceone who prevaricates
German Tatsachenverdreher, Schönredner
- Tatsachenverdreherone who prevaricates
- Schönrednerone who prevaricates
- Wahrheitsverdreherone who prevaricates
- Faktenverfälscherone who prevaricates
Polish krętacz, krętaczka
- krętaczone who prevaricates
- krętaczkaone who prevaricates
- lawirantone who prevaricates
- lawirantkaone who prevaricates
Portuguese prevaricador
- prevaricadorone who prevaricates
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APA
prevaricator. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prevaricator
MLA
“prevaricator.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prevaricator. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prevaricator,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prevaricator.
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