prevaricating
51mendacious — *dishonest, lying, untruthful, deceitful Analogous words: *false, wrong: prevaricating, equivocating, paltering, fibbing (see LIE vb) Antonyms: veracious Contrasted words: *reliable, dependable, trustworthy: honest, *upright, just, scrupulous,… …
52dishonesty — n 1. falsity, mendacity, untruthfulness, lying, prevaricating; duplicity, double dealing, hypocrisy; disingenuousness, insincerity, improbity; deceit, cheating, crookedness, deviousness, knavery, roguery, rascality, villainy; dirty pool, dirty… …
53mealy-mouthed — adj 1. mincing, overnice, nice, overdelicate, delicate, overdainty, dainty, euphemistic, euphemistical, euphemious, affected; priggish, prim, proper, Sl. uptight; tartuffian, pious, moral, self righteous, sanctimonious, holier than thou,… …
54pettifogging — adj 1. trifling, niggling, frivolous, Inf. nitpicking, paltry, insubstantial, insignificant; circumlocutory, fencing, equivocating, sophistical, sophistic, casuistic, casuistical; hairsplitting, caviling, captious; finespun, over refined, subtle …
55evasive — adjective Syn: equivocal, prevaricating, elusive, ambiguous, non committal, vague, unclear, oblique …
56prevaricate — 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… …
57quibble — /ˈkwɪbəl / (say kwibuhl) noun 1. a use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue. 2. the use of such arguments. 3. trivial, petty, or carping criticism. –verb (i) (quibbled, quibbling) 4. to evade… …
58evasive — [adj] deceitful, tricky ambiguous, cagey, casuistic, casuistical, cunning, deceptive, devious, dissembling, elusive, elusory, equivocating, false, fugitive, greasy, indirect, intangible, lying, misleading, oblique, prevaricating, shifty,… …
59lying — [adj] dishonest committing perjury, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dissembling, dissimulating, double crossing*, doubledealing*, equivocating, false, falsifying, fibbing, guileful, inventing, mendacious, misleading, misrepresenting,… …
60mendacious — [adj] dishonest deceitful, deceptive, duplicitous, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, false, fibbing, fraudulent, insincere, lying, paltering, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, shifty, spurious, untrue, untruthful, wrong; concept 267 Ant.… …
