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Definition of Prevaricate

Prevaricate
Prevaricate Pre*var"i*cate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prevaricated; p. pr. & vb. n. Prevaricating.] [L. praevaricatus, p. p. of praevaricari to walk crookedly, to collude; prae before + varicare to straddle, fr. varicus straddling, varus bent. See Varicose.] 1. To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. He prevaricates with his own understanding. --South. 2. (Civil Law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. 3. (Eng. Law) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. Syn: To evade; equivocate; quibble; shuffle. Usage: Prevaricate, Evade, Equivocate. One who evades a question ostensibly answers it, but really turns aside to some other point. He who equivocate uses words which have a double meaning, so that in one sense he can claim to have said the truth, though he does in fact deceive, and intends to do it. He who prevaricates talks all round the question, hoping to ``dodge' it, and disclose nothing.
Prevaricate
Prevaricate Pre*var"i*cate, v. t. To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.

Meaning of Prevaricate from wikipedia

- Look up prevarication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prevarication is avoidance of the truth. Prevarication can include, or be part of: Deception...
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-  185–198, 311. Manning, Lona (October 9, 2009). "Edgar Smith: The Great Prevaricator". Crime Magazine. Archived from the original on January 3, 2010. Retrieved...
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- obligation to the Rohingya people: So why is the federal government prevaricating?". Australia: ABC News. 3 October 2018. Archived from the original on...
- deceives even themselves". R. Martin (1988): "I would like to excuse the prevarications of the Sobieski-Stuart brothers with a nod to Baudrillard; they lied...
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