prevaricate

Syllabification: pre·var·i·cate

Pronunciation: /priˈvariˌkāt 

  

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VERB

[NO OBJECT]

• Speak or act in an evasive way:he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions

  MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES

  • Not dissembling, not equivocating, not prevaricating, not misinforming, not distorting.
  • As for the moral arguments, let's insist on a full and complete discussion of those too - without the usual shilly-shallying and prevaricating.
  • That is they kept quibbling and prevaricating and showing stubbornness.