prevaricate
11prevaricate — [prɪ varɪkeɪt] verb speak or act evasively. Derivatives prevarication noun prevaricator noun Origin C16 (earlier (ME) as prevarication and prevaricator), in the sense go astray, transgress : from L. praevaricat , praevaricari walk crookedly,… …
12prevaricate — UK [prɪˈværɪkeɪt] / US [prɪˈverɪˌkeɪt] verb [intransitive] Word forms prevaricate : present tense I/you/we/they prevaricate he/she/it prevaricates present participle prevaricating past tense prevaricated past participle prevaricated formal to… …
13prevaricate — [16] Etymologically, prevaricate means ‘walk crookedly’, and it goes back ultimately to a Latin adjective meaning ‘knockkneed’, varus. From this was derived the verb vāricāre ‘straddle’, which was combined with the prefix prae ‘before, beyond’ to …
14prevaricate — , procrastinate Occasionally confused. Prevaricate means to speak or act evasively, to stray from the truth. Procrastinate means to put off doing …
15prevaricate — [16] Etymologically, prevaricate means ‘walk crookedly’, and it goes back ultimately to a Latin adjective meaning ‘knockkneed’, varus. From this was derived the verb vāricāre ‘straddle’, which was combined with the prefix prae ‘before, beyond’ to …
16prevaricate, procrastinate — Occasionally confused. Prevaricate means to speak or act evasively, to stray from the truth. Procrastinate means to put off doing …
17prevaricate, procrastinate — Occasionally confused. Prevaricate means to speak or act evasively, to stray from the truth. Procrastinate means to put off doing …
18prevaricate — intransitive verb ( cated; cating) Etymology: Latin praevaricatus, past participle of praevaricari to act in collusion, literally, to straddle, from prae + varicare to straddle, from varus bowlegged Date: circa 1631 to deviate from the truth ;… …
19prevaricate — prevarication, n. prevaricative, prevaricatory /pri var i keuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. /pri var i kayt /, v.i., prevaricated, prevaricating. to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie. [1575 85; …
20prevaricate — Synonyms and related words: around the bush, back and fill, be untruthful, beat about, beg the question, belie, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, deceive, dodge, draw the longbow, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, exaggerate, falsify,… …
