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Prevaricate Truth Pri Var I Kayt Verb Avoid Telling Ambiguous Evading

To prevaricate is to avoid telling the truth by being ambiguous, evading, or misleading.

To prevaricate is to avoid the truth by speaking ambiguously, evasively, or misleadingly.

Front prevaricate \pri-VAR-i-kayt\
Back verb
To avoid telling the truth by being ambiguous, evading, or misleading.

[From Latin praevaricari (to straddle, to collude), from varicare (to straddle), from varus (knock-kneed, bent outwards). To prevaricate is to straddle the boundary between truth and falsehood.]

"Our presidents and their advisors, from Kennedy to Nixon and Ford, prevaricated, invented and outright lied for years about the course and casualties of the war." - Clancy Sigal; Caught in a Fantasy Amid Subterfuge; Los Angeles Times; Jun 29, 2001. 

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