"Prevaricate" is a word in ENGLISH
To collude, as where an informer colludes with the
defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with
the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
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.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Read the complete definitionTo evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; …
Read the complete definitionOne who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
Read the complete definitionThe practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.
Read the complete definitionPaltry; quibbling; mean.
Read the complete definitionThe act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the …
Read the complete definitionTo make puns, or a pun; to use a word in a double sense, especially when the contrast of ideas …
Read the complete definitionA play on words which have the same sound but different meanings; an expression in which two different applications of …
Read the complete definitionTo evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question …
Read the complete definitionA pun; a low conceit.
Read the complete definitionTo pun; to practice punning.
Read the complete definitionA shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
Read the complete definitionA cavilling or verbal ohjec-tion. A sllght difllculty raised without ne-cesslty or propriety
Read the complete definitionof Quibble
Read the complete definitionOne who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.
Read the complete definitionof Quibble
Read the complete definitionTriflingly; evasively.
Read the complete definitionA trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
Read the complete definitionSubtilty; nicety; quibble.
Read the complete definitionA sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; …
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