Usually means: Avoids telling the truth directly.
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  1. prevaricates: Merriam-Webster
  2. prevaricates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prevaricates: Vocabulary.com
  4. prevaricates: Wordnik
  5. prevaricates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prevaricates: Wiktionary
  7. prevaricates: Dictionary.com
  8. prevaricates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prevaricates: Legal dictionary

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  1. prevaricates: 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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