Prevaricate(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.
Prevaricate(v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
Prevaricate(v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Prevaricate(v. t.) To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
Prevaricated(imp. & p. p.) of Prevaricate
Prevaricating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevaricate
Prevarication(n.) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
Prevarication(n.) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
Prevarication(n.) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
Prevarication(n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Prevaricator(n.) One who prevaricates.
Prevaricator(n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution.
Prevaricator(n.) One who betrays or abuses a trust.
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