prevaricating

Example Sentences

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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

Perhaps the problem lies with Vida’s decision to focus on Eulabee’s point of view; we never quite get why Maria is such a prevaricating, manipulative control freak.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

If Mrs. Robinson saw through her daughter’s prevaricating, she did not let on.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2018

His belligerent, bleating, entitled, prevaricating, smart-ass Jock Culture posturing reminded me of the boys I had been trying to dodge all my life and, in the end, couldn’t help writing about.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2018

Both Trumbull and Lincoln then convicted Douglas of error, and thus put him in the light of one who had committed an offense and had sought to save himself by prevaricating.

From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen