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prevaricators

prevaricators is the plural of prevaricator.

Meaning of prevaricator

Noun

prevaricator (plural prevaricators)

  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.

Questions about prevaricators

What is prevaricators the plural of?
Prevaricators is the plural of prevaricator.

Words near prevaricators in the dictionary

  1. prevaricatingly
  2. prevarication
  3. prevarications
  4. prevaricative
  5. prevaricator
  6. prevaricators
  7. prevaricatory
  8. prevaricocelectomy
  9. prevarieties
  10. prevariety
  11. prevascular

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