prevaricate
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prevaricates, 3rd person singular present; prevaricated, past participle; prevaricating, present participle; prevaricated, past tense;
/priˈvariˌkāt/,
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prevaricates, 3rd person singular present; prevaricated, past participle; prevaricating, present participle; prevaricated, past tense;
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Speak or act in an evasive way
- - he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions
Web Definitions:
- beat around the bush: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- (prevarication) lie: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- (prevarication) equivocation: intentionally vague or ambiguous
- A lie (also called prevarication, falsehood) is a known untruth expressed as truth.
- To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from); To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous; To behave in an evasive way such as to delay action; to procrastinate; To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, ...
- (prevarication) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion; Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness; Evasiveness as a means of playing for time; procrastination, hesitancy
- Means “to act or speak in an evasive way”. Do not confuse with “procrastinate”, which means to “put off doing something”. The two meanings are closely related – if someone prevaricates they often also procrastinate – but the senses should be carefully distinguished. ...
- (v) - to lie evasively. prevarication