- present participle of prevaricate.
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
In some ways, it’s the opposite of Hamlet, who is prevaricating and trying to figure out what he should do.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
And the best thing to do when prevaricating fraudsters lie to you is not to doubt your sanity or to slide under the torpor of “who can know” hopelessness.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2021
If Mrs. Robinson saw through her daughter’s prevaricating, she did not let on.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2018
Never did inventive folly, working upon conscious guilt, and throwing each other totally in confusion, ever produce such a false, fraudulent, prevaricating letter as this, which is now to be given to you.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
