Sentence examples for to prevaricate from inspiring English sources
verb
To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
He had good reason to prevaricate.
"It is not time to prevaricate.
To prevaricate more would have been unprofessional.
On a more enlightened planet we wouldn't need to prevaricate.
It fires me up, otherwise I'm very prone to prevaricate.
Dealing with the NHS's endless ability to prevaricate.
By age four, we are aliens, flamboyantly different from them, largely by virtue of what may be our most exceptional trait our ability to pretend, prevaricate, play.
What makes his interviews so galling is the fact that McGwire -- and virtually every other major player who's been outed as a cheat (other than Jose Canseco) -- continues to lie, prevaricate, stretch the truth and play down their pathetic cheating and breaking of the law.
To continue to dissemble and prevaricate in the face of risks to national security and wellbeing of this magnitude would surely be a criminal abrogation of political responsibility.
We should plan to reduce the gap between rich and poor, and we need to stop prevaricating when it comes to the environment and actually do something.
If Colombo's sincere about implementing more significant reforms, it needs to stop prevaricating and either release, or bring to trial, all Tamil political prisoners.
