Usually means: Avoiding the truth; being evasive.
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  1. prevaricating: Merriam-Webster
  2. prevaricating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prevaricating: Vocabulary.com
  4. prevaricating: Wordnik
  5. prevaricating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prevaricating: Wiktionary
  7. Prevaricating, prevaricating: Dictionary.com
  8. Prevaricating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Prevaricating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Prevaricating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. prevaricating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. prevaricating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prevaricating: Legal dictionary

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  1. prevaricating: Encyclopedia

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  1. prevaricating: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prevaricate)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
verb:  (intransitive) To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
verb:  (law, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
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