prevaricating
- present participle of prevaricate.
Example Sentences
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Following years of prevaricating, Germany pledged to quit nuclear power definitively after Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster sent radiation spewing into the air and terrifying the world.
From Reuters ● Apr. 14, 2023
Playing Jimmy/Saul in crook mode comes easily to Odenkirk, who cites his unctuous agent Stevie Grant in “The Larry Sanders Show” as a precursor cut from the same prevaricating cloth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
His belligerent, bleating, entitled, prevaricating, smart-ass Jock Culture posturing reminded me of the boys I had been trying to dodge all my life and, in the end, couldn’t help writing about.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2018
There was no prevaricating; no ifs, ands, or buts; no maybes.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2018
Never did inventive folly, working upon conscious guilt, and throwing each other totally in confusion, ever produce such a false, fraudulent, prevaricating letter as this, which is now to be given to you.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
