prevaricator

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
prevaricator
    n 1: a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly [syn: {liar},
         {prevaricator}] [ant: {square shooter}, {straight arrow},
         {straight shooter}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Prevaricator \Pre*var"i*ca`tor\, n. [L. praevaricator: cf. F.
   pr['e]varicateur.]
   1. One who prevaricates.
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   2. (Roman Law) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a
      defendant in a sham prosecution.
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   3. One who betrays or abuses a trust. --Prynne.
      [1913 Webster]
from The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
PREVARICATOR, n.  A liar in the caterpillar estate.
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "prevaricator":
      Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan,
      Sir John Mandeville, captious critic, caviler, consummate liar,
      dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, false witness,
      falsifier, fibber, fibster, habitual liar, hairsplitter, hedger,
      liar, mystificator, mystifier, mythomaniac, nitpicker,
      obscurantist, palterer, pathological liar, perjurer, pettifogger,
      picayune critic, pseudologist, pseudologue, pussyfoot, pussyfooter,
      quibbler, shuffler, spinner of yarns, storyteller, tergiversator,
      yarn spinner, yarner
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