Definitions for prevaricator

prevaricator pre·var·i·ca·tor

Spelling: [pri-var-i-key-ter]
IPA: /prɪˈvær ɪˌkeɪ tər/

Prevaricator is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 807 anagrams from letters in prevaricator (aaceioprrrtv).

Definitions for prevaricator

noun

  1. a person who speaks falsely; liar.
  2. a person who speaks so as to avoid the precise truth; quibbler; equivocator.

Origin of prevaricator

1535-45; Latin praevāricātor; see prevaricate, -tor

Examples for prevaricator

Everything this girl said made her more of a prevaricator, even though she might be innocent of crime.

But an Englishman is nothing if not a prevaricator; he calls it being scrupulously truthful.

You are a prevaricator, for you tell things which are not so.

He was not willingly a prevaricator, and hated thoroughly to make explanations concerning it.

I'm not after sayin' me father was a prevaricator—no, indeed!

Mr. Rabbit, you are all these—a lazy, shiftless sneak, thief and prevaricator.'

For if I build up again the things which I have destroyed, I make myself a prevaricator.

She was not alone a dunce when it came to acting, she was a prevaricator as well.

"Hampton's a prevaricator," he said gravely, as he looked down into the merry blue eyes turned up to him.

Word Value for prevaricator
Scrable

19

Words with friends

22

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