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Prevaricate   Listen
verb
Prevaricate  v. t.  To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prevaricate" Quotes from Famous Books



... was not allowed to prevaricate, all that remained for me to do was to return no reply. But there was stubbornness in my silence; I should have liked to say pettishly: "But you won't let me explain, you won't let ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

... upon him like a hawk on a titmouse. 'Don't prevaricate with me, sir,' he said, sternly. 'If you do, it may be worse for you. This case has assumed quite another aspect. It is you and your associates who will be placed in the dock, not Mr. Tillington. You had better speak the truth; it is your one chance, I warn you. Lie ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen

... against him than the papers on his person. He was not there to prevaricate, and he told them his rank and name. There was no trial, and Howe at once ordered that he should be hanged the next morning. Worse than this, had he known it, he was to be hanged by William Cunningham, the Provost-Major, a man whose brutality, through the ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various



Words linked to "Prevaricate" :   mislead, palter, equivocate, beat around the bush, prevaricator, prevarication, misinform, tergiversate



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