prevaricator, ipse dixit, dissembler, milksop, apologizer, moralizer, beau geste, expositor, gadfly, inquisitor, grand inquisitor, perjurer, non compos mentis, moralist, grandstander, grammarian, arguer, pontificator, detractor, amanuensis, antisemite, litigant, testimony, disingenuity, controversialist, apologist, polemicist, sophist, reviser, coddler, defamer, opposer, objector, esquire, hagiographer, malefactor, zealot, exculpation, constitutionalist, provocateur, dissenter, punctiliousness, obiter dictum, compromiser, archangel, punster, personage, wiretapper, jurist, boor, disputant, scrivener, taunter, stoolie, confessor, textualist, parti pris, pamphleteer, exposer, incuriosity, flatterer, irascibility, carouser, rhetorician, blunderer, nutcase, establishmentarian, taciturnity, orator, kibitzer, welsome, whoremonger, caviling, masquerader, agent provocateur, disserving, briber, moser, miles gloriosus, mudslinger, insulter, speechmaker, naysayer, slanderer, subornation, crusader, rara avis, sympathizer, blowhard, pugnaciousness, tragedian, loose cannon, griper, speaker, philosophe, propagandist, fibber, falsifier, casuistry, litigator, asker, refuser, batsman, makes, advices, advisory, airman, aspirant, auditions, backup, baking, batsmen, blog, boatman, bookkeeper, bookshelf, bout, broadway, called, caller, can, caretaker

informant, witness

deponent