Representing this African situation is the figurine Chamutang'a, alias, 'the slippery customer or
prevaricator.' (see Fig 1,1).a ...
At least that was the case of at least one
prevaricator whose name popped up in a suspicious activity report (SAR) alerting the authorities to possible mortgage fraud while he was on probation for an earlier criminal offense.
The 1860 version of the poem begins with an eight-line confession omitted from subsequent editions of Leaves, in which the persona announces, "I own that I have been sly, thievish, mean, a
prevaricator, greedy, derelict, // And I own that I remain so yet" (325n).
Hemingway has clearly had his way with Knee's imagination, and the resulting fiery
prevaricator is a pleasure to watch: Sosko's leonine pugilist leads with his pelvis and all but drags his knuckles across the stage as he munches on the scenery.
Paul Martin appears in the book as a
prevaricator, willing to say one thing in cabinet and another in public and to work closely with the PMO and then to coin his famous "Who do you know in the PMO?" line when on his own.
We still didn't want to clog the court system with our complaint, but we realized we wouldn't get an apology from this
prevaricator dealing editor-to-editor.
"You
prevaricator. The lawn has been fertilized for the winter.
Their radio ads ballyhoo this self-confessed
prevaricator as if he were a knight in shining armor.
He will go down in history as a
prevaricator and a wobbly-kneed a**hole.
It becomes difficult for a
prevaricator to keep track of all the lies he is telling, and you can often elicit an inconsistent response the second time you touch on a topic.
To call the forty-third President of the United States a
prevaricator is not an exercise of opinion, not an inflammatory talk-radio device.
However, one among you endured these gusts no more and has attempted to harness them and place the
Prevaricator in a dinghy." A palpable hush instantly ensconced the Valleyans.
It features an unnamed character, simply called the "old man" (der Greis), who sees through Stein and tells him what a
prevaricator he really is, oily rationalizations and all.
In October 2000 Safire wrote a column entitled "Hillary the habitual
prevaricator: Six years later, she clings to fiction that she was blameless in Travelgate." Safire wrote, "...
Bush may be a
prevaricator, which means a liar, but what Voice of the Mirror meant to call him was a procrastinator, which is someone who puts off making a decision (Page 6, November 20).
