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Prevarication means "to speak or act falsely or evasively with intent to deceive" (Collins).
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Despite good intentions, procrastination and prevarication to date have meant no substantive progress.
The original subheading used the word prevarication where indecisiveness was meant.
But the jihadists can be in no doubt that despite all the prevarication the Americans now mean business.
Expect more prevarication; expect the evacuation of meaning from words you once understood.
He writes: "Over a long time, and by means of a set of handy prevarications, our economy has become an anti-economy, a financial system without a sound economic basis and without economic virtues".
Summer should mean adults without children can find time for family and friends without prevarication or guilt, and that we all make an extra effort to recognize the difference between a real emergency (brain surgery) and a manufactured one (FedEx deadline).
In the experienced hands of Mr Davis's spinners, the explanation was soon remoulded to look like an excuse, which had to mean there was something to hide.The records, when eventually released after months of prevarication, revealed no sordid secrets.
Why the prevarication?
Prevarication makes matters worse.
Then there was outright prevarication.
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