Usually means: Evasive or deceitful in speech.
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  1. prevaricative: Merriam-Webster
  2. prevaricative: Dictionary.com
  3. prevaricative: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  Synonym of prevaricatory

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persecutorial, hypocritic, prescriptivistic, jurative, assertorical, reduplicatory, expiational, praetorial, denigrative, pretelegraphic, more...

Opposite:
truthful, honest, straightforward, candid, sincere

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Similar:
persecutorial, hypocritic, prescriptivistic, jurative, assertorical, reduplicatory, expiational, praetorial, denigrative, pretelegraphic, more...

Opposite:
truthful, honest, straightforward, candid, sincere



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