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

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

And the best thing to do when prevaricating fraudsters lie to you is not to doubt your sanity or to slide under the torpor of “who can know” hopelessness.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2021

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

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2018

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 Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)