prevarication
Example Sentences
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The source who alerted The Times to VOA’s decision feared it suggested prevarication by the administration.
From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2023
A devotee of prevarication and double-dealing, Molière would have made the most, in three acts, of stories like these.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
"The signatories to this letter demand that Church authorities act immediately and without prevarication in order to repair the damage to the reputation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland".
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2023
Six years later, Disney+'s "Andor," the backstory of Diego Luna's rebel spy, requires no such prevarication.
From Salon • Sep. 23, 2022
The ad is for “customer service” work, a type of job I tend to avoid because it normally involves a resume, which in turn would involve levels of prevarication I am not prepared to attempt.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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