- 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
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
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
Was not Jacob a mean, prevaricating knave, a crafty, abject cheat?
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
