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prevaricator

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From prevaricate + -or or Latin praevaricator: compare French prévaricateur.

noun prevaricators

  1. One who prevaricates. It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator.
  2. historical An orator at the University of Cambridge fulfilling a similar function to the terrae filius at Oxford.

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"prevaricator." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/prevaricator. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{prevaricator_2026,
  title = {prevaricator},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prevaricator},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}