- 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
Playing Jimmy/Saul in crook mode comes easily to Odenkirk, who cites his unctuous agent Stevie Grant in “The Larry Sanders Show” as a precursor cut from the same prevaricating cloth.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2019
"Please tell me exactly what you've noticed," he said, as if he were a police sergeant and she were some reluctant and slightly prevaricating witness.
From The Dark Tower by Soper, J. H. Gardner
