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prevaricating

ADJECTIVE
evasive
Synonyms
STRONGEST
ambiguous cagey deceptive false misleading unclear vague
WEAK
casuistic casuistical cunning devious dissembling elusive elusory equivocating fugitive greasy indirect intangible lying oblique shifty shuffling slippery sly sophistical stonewalling
Antonyms
STRONGEST
clear definite honest truthful
WEAK
direct forthright ready straight straightforward
ADJECTIVE
lying
Synonyms
STRONGEST
misleading
STRONG
dissembling dissimulating double-crossing double-dealing equivocating falsifying fibbing inventing misrepresenting misstating two-timing wrong
WEAK
committing perjury deceitful deceptive delusive delusory false guileful mendacious perfidious shifty treacherous tricky two-faced unreliable untruthful
Antonyms
STRONG
honest
WEAK
direct frank
ADJECTIVE
mendacious
Synonyms
WEAK
deceitful deceptive duplicitous equivocating erroneous fallacious false fibbing fraudulent insincere lying paltering perfidious perjured shifty spurious untrue untruthful wrong
Antonyms
WEAK
frank honest sincere truthful
ADJECTIVE
perjurious
Synonyms
WEAK
committing perjury deceitful deceptive delusive delusory dissembling dissimulating double-crossing double-dealing equivocating false falsifying fibbing forsworn guileful inventing mendacious misleading misrepresenting misstating perfidious perjured shifty treacherous tricky two-faced two-timing unreliable untruthful wrong
ADJECTIVE
truthless
Synonyms
WEAK
counterfactual deceitful deceptive delusive deviant disloyal dissembling distorted erroneous faithless fallacious false fictitious forsworn hollow imprecise inaccurate inconstant incorrect inexact lying meretricious misleading mistaken off out of line perfidious perjured recreant sham specious spurious traitorous treacherous two-faced unfaithful unloyal unsound untrue untrustworthy untruthful wide wrong
ADJECTIVE
untrue
Synonyms
STRONGEST
apocryphal deceptive distorted erroneous false fictitious inaccurate incorrect misleading mistaken specious spurious unfaithful unsound untruthful wrong
WEAK
cheating counterfactual deceitful delusive deviant disloyal dissembling faithless fallacious forsworn hollow imprecise inconstant inexact lying meretricious off out of line perfidious perjured recreant sham traitorous treacherous two-faced unloyal untrustworthy wide
Antonyms
STRONGEST
accurate actual authentic correct factual genuine honest just precise real right sound straight true truthful valid
WEAK
faithful

Example Sentences

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Prevaricating like a gentleman and a sportsman, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain said on his return from Lausanne to London: "Reparations have been swept away and we have begun now a new era!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Prevaricating replies lead to suspicion, and suspicion to discovery.

From The Legacy of Cain by Collins, Wilkie