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

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

There was no prevaricating; no ifs, ands, or buts; no maybes.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2018

Hear what prevaricating guilt says for the falsehood and delusion which had been used to cover it; and see how he plunges deeper and deeper upon every occasion.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund