prevaricating

Example Sentences

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Following years of prevaricating, Germany pledged to quit nuclear power definitively after Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster sent radiation spewing into the air and terrifying the world.

From Reuters • Apr. 14, 2023

Playing Jimmy/Saul in crook mode comes easily to Odenkirk, who cites his unctuous agent Stevie Grant in “The Larry Sanders Show” as a precursor cut from the same prevaricating cloth.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2019

If Mrs. Robinson saw through her daughter’s prevaricating, she did not let on.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2018

His belligerent, bleating, entitled, prevaricating, smart-ass Jock Culture posturing reminded me of the boys I had been trying to dodge all my life and, in the end, couldn’t help writing about.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2018

I reckon," he said, after a momentary struggle over a desire to tell the plain truth instead of prevaricating, "if you don't know that woman by this time, Virgie, it's your own fault.

From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)