prevaricating

Example Sentences

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After days of conflicting statements and prevaricating, he sent Leavitt out to offer a message that was sure to make everyone mad: He will decide in "two weeks."

From Salon • Jun. 23, 2025

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

"Pshaw! between ourselves, there's no use in prevaricating; we all knew one another's ages at school."

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de