Crossword-Solution: PREVARICATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prevaricate | v. i. | 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. |
| Prevaricate | v. i. | To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. |
| Prevaricate | v. i. | To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. |
| Prevaricate | v. t. | To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “PREVARICATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| to avoid telling the truth by being ambiguous, evading, or misleading | 1 answer |
| Speak evasively | 1 answer |
| Offer an untruth | 1 answer |
| Credo, part 4 | 1 answer |
| ACT evasively | 1 answer |
| USE ambiguous words to conceal truth | 2 answers |
| play upon words | 9 answers |
| tergiversate | 30 answers |
| recidivate | 31 answers |
| apostatise | 34 answers |
| misstate | 36 answers |
| Renege | 39 answers |
| cavil | 42 answers |
| Side-step | 43 answers |
| dissemble | 44 answers |
| Shun | 45 answers |
| equivocate | 48 answers |
| Pussyfoot | 48 answers |
| Backslide | 48 answers |
| Fib | 49 answers |
| Quibble | 50 answers |
| Evade | 51 answers |
| Elude | 53 answers |
| Falsify | 55 answers |
| Pretend | 56 answers |
| Fence | 56 answers |
| Dodge | 57 answers |
| Avoid | 60 answers |
| Ditch | 60 answers |
| shuffle | 60 answers |
| Hedge-___ | 62 answers |
| Feign | 66 answers |
| relapse | 66 answers |
| Withdraw | 68 answers |
| Duck | 80 answers |
| Desert | 80 answers |
| Escape | 87 answers |
| Confuse | 87 answers |
| Turn | 90 answers |
| Lie | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PREVARICATE (5)
But I have made at worst some neat, precise and joyous little tales which prevaricate tenderly about the universe and veil the pettiness of human nature with screens of verbal jewelwork.
The numbers of slaves and of cattle constituted an essential part of the report; an oath was administered to the proprietors, which bound them to disclose the true state of their affairs; and their attempts to prevaricate, or elude the intention of the legislator, were severely watched, and punished as a capital crime, which included the double guilt of treason and sacrilege.
Sterndale, how do you justify such conduct, and what were the motives for your actions? If you prevaricate or trifle with me, I give you my assurance that the matter will pass out of my hands forever." Our visitor's face had turned ashen gray as he listened to the words of his accuser.
They too will skulk, and dodge, and prevaricate--be ready to speak one way and act another--just like their betters.
The Yankee _is_ an inventive genius." "It was a Yankee invented that tale about your not being able to prevaricate, wasn't it, George?" asked Diogenes.
Quotes with PREVARICATE (1)
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2013).