Look up prevarication in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prevarication is avoidance of the truth. Prevarication can include, or be part of: Deception...

believed to be dead, but Odysseus lies back to her, employing skillful prevarications to protect himself. Impressed by his resolve and shrewdness, she reveals...

and Alys technically impossible in the eyes of the Church, but Henry prevaricated: he regarded Alys's dowry, Vexin in the Île-de-France, as valuable. Richard...

preoccupation with personal grooming combined with frequent resorting to prevarication or outright lying; and a lack of empathy. Drawing on Rajneesh's reminiscences...

deceives even themselves". R. Martin (1988): "I would like to excuse the prevarications of the Sobieski-Stuart brothers with a nod to Baudrillard; they lied...

obligation to the Rohingya people: So why is the federal government prevaricating?". Australia: ABC News. 3 October 2018. Archived from the original on...

Britain far faster than would have happened had the NUM been led by some prevaricating, dreary old-style union hack. In a book published by the National Coal...

 185–198, 311. Manning, Lona (October 9, 2009). "Edgar Smith: The Great Prevaricator". Crime Magazine. Archived from the original on January 3, 2010. Retrieved...

reasonable alternative explanations, or have been misreported, or are simple prevarications, hoaxes and distortions". Paleocontact or "ancient astronaut" narratives...

varic- straddle Latin varicare "to straddle", from varus "bowlegged" prevaricate veh-, vect- carry Latin vehere "to carry", vectus invective, inveigh...