prevaricate
verbEtymology
Borrowed from Latin praevāricātus, perfect active participle of praevāricor (“to walk crookedly; to play a false or double part”), from prae- + vāricō (“to stand with feet apart, straddle”), from vāricus (“with feet spread apart”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
- borrowed from praevāricātus
Definitions
To deviate, transgress
To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive
To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
- The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham…
To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
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To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or…
To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
The neighborhood
- synonymbeat about the bush
- synonymbeat around the bush
- synonymequivocate
- synonymfabricate
- synonymfib
- synonymlie
- synonymtergiversate
- neighborlie
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA