Thesaurus / prevaricate
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Boris Johnson may have once prevaricated about Brexit, but his political identity is now bound to it.
CRYSTAL BALL 2021: PREDICTIONS FOR THE ECONOMY, POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, AND MORELBELANGER225DECEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNEHe should have no opportunity to prevaricate if I once challenged him.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE - VOLUME 55, NO. 343, MAY 1844VARIOUSThey Act up to their Relation; neither sneak, nor prevaricate, nor do any thing unbecoming their Office.
A SHORT VIEW OF THE IMMORALITY, AND PROFANENESS OF THE ENGLISH STAGEJEREMY COLLIERThey dont have to tell the truth all the time, but on the contrary, are privileged to prevaricate in the most artistic manner.
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHFREDERIC S. ISHAMIf he wished to prevaricate at all, it was rather to attribute himself to Mrs. Bowen's city in Ohio.
INDIAN SUMMERWILLIAM D. HOWELLSThe patient tried to prevaricate, but Glory told the truth again, and was reproved once more.
THE CHRISTIANHALL CAINEThinking it professional to prevaricate, he murmured something about a nervous breakdown.
HOWARDS ENDE. M. FORSTER"I fail to see how a newspaper can be made to prevaricate truthfully," asserted Mr. Whitechoker.
THE IDIOTJOHN KENDRICK BANGSAnd hath that man been true to this Nation, whosoever he be, especially that hath taken an oath, thus to prevaricate?
THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON, VOLUME 5 (OF 7), 1654-1660DAVID MASSONYou prevaricate from excess of delicacy, and because you are afraid of implicating some of Dargental's old flames.
THE RED LOTTERY TICKETFORTUN DU BOISGOBEYWORDS RELATED TO PREVARICATE
- be noncommittal
- beat around the bush
- blow hot and cold
- cop a plea
- cop out
- duck
- equivocate
- evade
- flip-flop
- fudge
- give the runaround
- hem and haw
- jive
- pass the buck
- prevaricate
- pussyfoot
- quibble
- run around
- shilly-shally
- shuck
- shuffle
- sidestep
- sit on the fence
- stall
- stonewall
- temporize
- tergiversate
- tergiverse
- waffle
- BS
- be untruthful
- bear false witness
- beguile
- break promise
- bull
- con
- concoct
- deceive
- delude
- dissemble
- dissimulate
- distort
- dupe
- equivocate
- exaggerate
- fabricate
- fake
- falsify
- fib
- forswear
- frame
- fudge
- go back on
- invent
- make believe
- malign
- misguide
- misinform
- misinstruct
- mislead
- misrepresent
- misspeak
- misstate
- overdraw
- palter
- perjure
- pervert
- phony
- plant
- prevaricate
- promote
- put on
- put up a front
- snow
- soft-soap
- string along
- victimize
- BS
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- bear false witness
- beguile
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- bull
- con
- concoct
- deceive
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- dissemble
- dissimulate
- distort
- dupe
- equivocate
- exaggerate
- fabricate
- fake
- falsify
- fib
- forswear
- frame
- fudge
- go back on
- invent
- make believe
- malign
- misguide
- misinform
- misinstruct
- mislead
- misrepresent
- misspeak
- misstate
- overdraw
- palter
- perjure
- pervert
- phony
- plant
- prevaricate
- promote
- put on
- put up a front
- snow
- soft-soap
- string along
- victimize
- adulterated
- angled
- bearded
- belied
- built up
- cloaked
- colored
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- promoted
- puffed
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- snowed
- spread it on
- stretched
- threw a curve
- took out of context
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- angles
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- embroiders
- equivocates
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- gives snow job
- mangles
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- misinterprets
- misreports
- misstates
- overdraws
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- palters
- perverts
- phony up
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- promotes
- puffs
- skews
- slants
- snows
- spreads it on
- stretches
- takes out of context
- throws a curve
- trumps up
- twists
- warps
- adulterating
- angling
- bearding
- belying
- building up
- cloaking
- coloring
- confusing
- conning
- covering up
- disguising
- distorting
- dressing
- embellishing
- embroidering
- equivocating
- exaggerating
- falsifying
- garbling
- giving snow job
- mangling
- masking
- miscoloring
- misinterpreting
- misreporting
- misstating
- overdrawing
- overstating
- paltering
- perverting
- phony up
- pirating
- prevaricating
- promoting
- puffing
- skewing
- slanting
- snowing
- spreading it on
- stretching
- taking out of context
- throwing a curve
- trumping up
- twisting
- warping
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