prevaricator
nounEtymology From prevaricate + -or or Latin praevaricator: compare French prévaricateur.
1
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:
2
Historical An orator at the University of Cambridge fulfilling a similar function to the terrae filius at Oxford.