Associations to the word «Prevaricate»
Wiktionary
PREVARICATE, verb. (transitive) (intransitive) (obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
PREVARICATE, verb. (intransitive) To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
PREVARICATE, verb. (intransitive) (legal) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
PREVARICATE, verb. (legal) (UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Dictionary definition
PREVARICATE, verb. Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.