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PREVARICATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they prevaricate ... he / she / it prevaricates
Past simple: prevaricated
Past participle: prevaricated
-ing form: prevaricating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
Synonyms:
beat around the bush; equivocate; palter; prevaricate; tergiversate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "prevaricate" is one way to...):
misinform; mislead (give false or misleading information to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
prevarication (the deliberate act of deviating from the truth)
prevarication (intentionally vague or ambiguous)
prevarication (a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth)
prevaricator (a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly)
