- present participle of prevaricate.
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
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
"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 J. H. Gardner Soper
