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prevaricating
adjective as in evasive
adjective as in lying
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adjective as in mendacious
adjective as in perjurious
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adjective as in truthless
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- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
- disloyal
- dissembling
- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fictitious
- forsworn
- hollow
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- incorrect
- inexact
- lying
- meretricious
- misleading
- mistaken
- off
- out of line
- perfidious
- perjured
- recreant
- sham
- specious
- spurious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- unsound
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wide
- wrong
adjective as in untrue
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Example Sentences
The chief addressed Julia in a tone of authority, imitating the counsel for the crown when examining a prevaricating witness.
In order that she might continue to think him so, he would go on prevaricating forever, if necessary.
Here the prevaricating waiting-maid told barely the truth in words: Mad.
Mrs. Norman made the most common, and—where the object is to baffle curiosity—the most useless of prevaricating replies.
Randal flattered himself that he had made a prevaricating reply simply impossible.
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On this page you'll find 230 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prevaricating, such as: ambiguous, cagey, deceptive, false, misleading, and unclear.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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