prevaricate
pruh ve ruh kayt
- v be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- While they delay and prevaricate, the burden falls on the wounded and their families.
- To hold the contrary is to prevaricate the truth and the record.
- Sissela Bok, the high priestess of the scholars of lying, says the TV camera has made it far more dangerous for a President to prevaricate than it was 50 years ago.