📚 Prevaricate, verb. 🔉 /prɪˈvarɪkeɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (no object): Speak or act in an evasive way. ❗️ Examples: 1. He seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions. 2. Not dissembling, not equivocating, not prevaricating, not misinforming, not distorting. 3. As for the moral arguments, let's insist on a full and complete discussion of those too - without the usual shilly-shallying and prevaricating. 4. That is they kept quibbling and prevaricating and showing stubbornness. 5. They don't have the balls to admit that they were caught out, so they attack and lie and prevaricate and do everything to shuffle out from under it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic