- present participle of prevaricate.
prevaricating
Example Sentences
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After days of conflicting statements and prevaricating, he sent Leavitt out to offer a message that was sure to make everyone mad: He will decide in "two weeks."
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
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
In short, the agency put forth a rule that addresses the problem head-on without prevaricating or kowtowing to corporate America.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2023
In some ways, it’s the opposite of Hamlet, who is prevaricating and trying to figure out what he should do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
That we may be free from all the rest, sullen anger, solemn virtue, calculating anxiety, gloomy suspicion, prevaricating hope, we should be reborn in gaiety.
From The Cutting of an Agate by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
