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prevaricate
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prevaricate
Verb
  • To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from). transitive, intransitive, obsolete
  • To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous. intransitive
  • To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. intransitive, law
  • To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. law, Britain