prevaricating
Meaning of prevaricating
- speak or act in an evasive way.
he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions
mid 16th century (earlier (Middle English) as prevarication and prevaricator ), in the sense ‘go astray, transgress’: from Latin praevaricat- ‘walked crookedly, deviated’, from the verb praevaricari, from prae ‘before’ + varicari ‘straddle’.
Information about prevaricating
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Hyphenation of prevaricating
pre-var-i-cat-ing
- It consists of 5 syllables and 13 chars.
- prevaricating is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
prevaricating synonyms
Meaning surround with a hedge:
Meaning conduct a discussion or argument in an evasive way:
Meaning walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground:
Meaning act in a cautious or non-committal way:
Meaning use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself:
Meaning waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive:
Meaning argue or raise objections about a trivial matter:
Meaning make petty or unnecessary objections:
Meaning (of a person or animal) be in or assume a horizontal or resting position on a supporting surface:
Meaning avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time:
Meaning (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine:
Meaning equivocate or prevaricate in action or speech:
Meaning make conflicting or evasive statements; equivocate:
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