prevaricator
One who fibs
A prevaricator is someone who avoids giving direct or truthful answers—not quite a liar, but someone who evades, hedges, or speaks misleadingly.
The word carries a slightly formal or literary tone: Politicians are skilled prevaricators.
Where a liar tells falsehoods outright, a prevaricator dances around the truth.
Creator of lies
- fibberOne who tells untruths
- falsifierOne who distorts truth
- deceiverOne who tricks others
- perjurerOne who lies sworn
mythomaniac · dissembler · storyteller · hoaxer · bluffer · trickster · fraudster · cheat
One who speaks ambiguously
- hedgerOne who avoids commitment
- dodgerOne who avoids
- wafflerOne who hesitates endlessly
- stonewallerOne who refuses response
obfuscator · sidestep · deflector · fudger · noncommittal · slippery · shifty · evasive
Favorable interpretation specialist
- propagandistPusher of biased messaging
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
- flip-flopperOne who reverses positions
- double-dealerOne feigning loyalty falsely
sophist · apologist · mouthpiece · talking head · operative · flack · handler · pundit
Deliberately untrue statement
- falsehoodDeliberate untrue statement
- misrepresentationFalse or misleading statement
- untruthA false statement
- fibTrivial, harmless falsehood
whopper · distortion · exaggeration · duplicity · guile · subterfuge · dissimulation · mendacity
fabricator
Creator of lies
perjurer · mythomaniac · dissembler · storyteller · hoaxer · bluffer · trickster · fraudster · cheat · impostor
equivocator
One who speaks ambiguously
stonewaller · obfuscator · sidestep · deflector · fudger · noncommittal · slippery · shifty · evasive · vague
spin doctor
Favorable interpretation specialist
- propagandistPusher of biased messaging
- demagogueManipulative populist leader
- flip-flopperOne who reverses positions
double-dealer · sophist · apologist · mouthpiece · talking head · operative · flack · handler · pundit
fabrication
Deliberately untrue statement
- falsehoodDeliberate untrue statement
- misrepresentationFalse or misleading statement
- untruthA false statement
fib · whopper · distortion · exaggeration · duplicity · guile · subterfuge · dissimulation · mendacity · deceitfulness
- deceiversliar, liars, deceiver, fraud, fake
- liarsdeceiver, fabricator, falsifier, fraud, con artist
prevaricatortruth-teller
One who speaks accurately
truthteller · straight shooter · straight talker · honest broker · man of his word
prevaricate, prevarication, prevaricating, prevaricated, prevarications, prevaricators, prevaricates