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- noun Plural form of
prevaricator .
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Examples
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They were numbered off, their names taken; they were pulled about and flustered, asked questions, contradicted before they had time to answer, and then called prevaricators because they said nothing; they were, in fact, brought to that state of breathless hurry in which a boy will say anything you choose.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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The high school cheats and high-profile prevaricators don't mean that honesty and integrity are on their deathbeds, Sverdlik said.
Fallout from resume lies can be brutal Padding resumes has brought down many figures 2010
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Kindergarten kids trying to lie their way out of trouble could hardly do worse than this feckless bunch of barefaced prevaricators. posted by Dr. Dawg at 3: 39 PM
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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I don't know if the CTA charges are accurate or not -- it's hard to say, given the illogical mess of a "budget program" that Whitman has put out -- but they are certainly more accurate than the nonsense she and her merry band of pricey professional prevaricators are spewing.
William Bradley: Bill Clinton Hearts Jerry Brown! (And Other Tales of Intrigue) 2010
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I don't know if the CTA charges are accurate or not -- it's hard to say, given the illogical mess of a "budget program" that Whitman has put out -- but they are certainly more accurate than the nonsense she and her merry band of pricey professional prevaricators are spewing.
William Bradley: Bill Clinton Hearts Jerry Brown! (And Other Tales of Intrigue) 2010
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It's now clear that a candidate with unlimited resources can and will blow off complaints, critiques and factual analyses of those who dare to speak up and will instead declare that the truth is whatever he or she says it is -- in their paid advertising and the assertions of their mercenary prevaricators.
Phil Trounstine: The Death of Truth: eMeg and the Politics of Lying 2010
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I don't know if the CTA charges are accurate or not -- it's hard to say, given the illogical mess of a "budget program" that Whitman has put out -- but they are certainly more accurate than the nonsense she and her merry band of pricey professional prevaricators are spewing.
William Bradley: Bill Clinton Hearts Jerry Brown! (And Other Tales of Intrigue) 2010
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I don't know if the CTA charges are accurate or not -- it's hard to say, given the illogical mess of a "budget program" that Whitman has put out -- but they are certainly more accurate than the nonsense she and her merry band of pricey professional prevaricators are spewing.
William Bradley: Bill Clinton Hearts Jerry Brown! (And Other Tales of Intrigue) 2010
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I don't know if the CTA charges are accurate or not -- it's hard to say, given the illogical mess of a "budget program" that Whitman has put out -- but they are certainly more accurate than the nonsense she and her merry band of pricey professional prevaricators are spewing.
William Bradley: Bill Clinton Hearts Jerry Brown! (And Other Tales of Intrigue) 2010
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I don't know if the CTA charges are accurate or not -- it's hard to say, given the illogical mess of a "budget program" that Whitman has put out -- but they are certainly more accurate than the nonsense she and her merry band of pricey professional prevaricators are spewing.
William Bradley: Bill Clinton Hearts Jerry Brown! (And Other Tales of Intrigue) 2010
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