Prevaricate

Definition:

  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
  • (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
  • (v. t.) To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.

Compare prevaricate with other words:

prevaricate vs. prevaricated

prevaricate vs. variance

obfuscate vs. prevaricate

calumny vs. prevaricate

prevaricate vs. subterfuge

prevaricate vs. quibble

advocate vs. prevaricate

prevaricate vs. procrastinate

laud vs. prevaricate

palter vs. prevaricate

dodge vs. prevaricate

equivocate vs. prevaricate

evade vs. prevaricate

prevaricate vs. prevaricator

prevaricate vs. undertake

prevaricate vs. sham

prevaricate vs. prosecution

defendant vs. prevaricate

informer vs. prevaricate

collude vs. prevaricate

ambiguous vs. prevaricate

direct vs. prevaricate

prevaricate vs. waffle

astray vs. prevaricate

prevaricate vs. transgress

deviate vs. prevaricate

prevaricate vs. tergiversate

prevaricate vs. prevarication

presage vs. prevaricate

equivocal vs. prevaricate

lie vs. prevaricate