- 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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believed to be dead, but
Odysseus lies back to her,
employing skillful prevarications to
protect himself.
Impressed by his
resolve and shrewdness, she reveals...
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preoccupation with
personal grooming combined with
frequent resorting to
prevarication or
outright lying; and a lack of empathy.
Drawing on Rajneesh's reminiscences...
- 185–198, 311. Manning, Lona (October 9, 2009). "Edgar Smith: The
Great Prevaricator".
Crime Magazine.
Archived from the
original on
January 3, 2010. Retrieved...
- and Alys
technically impossible in the eyes of the Church, but
Henry prevaricated: he
regarded Alys's dowry,
Vexin in the Île-de-France, as valuable. Richard...
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Britain far
faster than
would have
happened had the NUM been led by some
prevaricating,
dreary old-style
union hack. In a book
published by the
National Coal...
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reasonable alternative explanations, or have been misreported, or are
simple prevarications,
hoaxes and distortions".
Paleocontact or "ancient astronaut" narratives...
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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...
- varic-
straddle Latin varicare "to straddle", from
varus "bowlegged"
prevaricate veh-, vect-
carry Latin vehere "to carry",
vectus invective, inveigh...
- play-offs in 2001–02 but was
notoriously sacked by fax that
summer after prevaricating over a new contract.
Hollins spent a
short time as the ****istant manager...