Friday, January 19, 2007

prevaricate

prevaricate (vi)

1. To shift or turn from the direct course, or from truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.

2. To speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble.

3. To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

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