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Definition of prevaricates in English Turkish dictionary
- prevaricate
- {f} kaçamak cevap vermek
- prevaricate
- boğuntuya getirmek
- prevaricate
- kaçamak yanıtlarla gerçeği gizlemeye çalışmak
- prevaricate
- kaçamak cevap ver
- prevaricate
- {f} kaçamaklı söz söylemek
- prevaricate
- {f} yalan söylemek
- prevaricate
- {f} kaçamak cevaplar vermek
- prevaricate
- {f} k.dili. yalan söylemek
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Definition of prevaricates in English English dictionary
- third-person singular of prevaricate
- prevaricate
- To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution
- prevaricate
- To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from)
- prevaricate
- To behave in an evasive way such as to delay action; to procrastinate
At the moment of her departure he could prevaricate no longer, and, confessing to the gambling, told her the truth as far as he knew it--that the guineas had been won by Wildeve.
- prevaricate
- To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous
The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
- prevaricate
- to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention
- prevaricate
- {v} to cavil, shuffle, quibble, waver
- prevaricate
- be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- prevaricate
- To shift or turn from the direct course, or from truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous
- prevaricate
- If you prevaricate, you avoid giving a direct answer or making a firm decision. British ministers continued to prevaricate. + prevarication prevarications pre·vari·ca·tion After months of prevarication, the political decision had at last been made. to try to hide the truth by not answering questions directly (past participle of praevaricari , from varicari )
- prevaricate
- To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert
- prevaricate
- {f} lie, make false statements; speak half-truth, embellish the truth; deceive, intentionally mislead
- prevaricate
- To speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble
- prevaricate
- To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it
- prevaricate
- To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement