You will always be found out by your parents if you prevaricate. From LearnThat.org.
However: We prevaricate, which is to say, being interpreted, we hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Why is a Hog always Corpulent ? (or Another Special Exhibit at the Met)] Reference
Who was that in the Planet Money clip who doesn't know "prevaricate" (lie) from. From Wordnik.com. [WNYC New York Public Radio] Reference
Or mental stipulation. or the need to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [i think my arms are getting shorter] Reference
The man repeated it and Suthep wanted to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Would the BBC prevaricate over an appeal for a monument. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He became uneasy, and began to prevaricate and shuffle. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon] Reference
There is no need for me to prevaricate, much less to spy. From Wordnik.com. [Acorna's Rebels]
As these poor people prevaricate, so do they procrastinate. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
And maybe not then, since she HAS been known to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Campaign: She Will Not Concede Tonight] Reference
It was hard to prevaricate while the back of her brain throbbed. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
Yet here he was compelled to hedge, to hide, and to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
So they continue with the newer lie -- they continue to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [The New Big Lie] Reference
He should have no opportunity to prevaricate if I once challenged him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
But his body couldn't prevaricate when it came to unacknowledged anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
She would prevaricate, but it would be in the line of her feelings at least. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie] Reference
"But how canst thou call it integrity, an thou dost prevaricate?" she asked. From Wordnik.com. [Phaze Doubt]
I disagree with him on nearly every count, but at least he didn't prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [sucez ma jean-thomas] Reference
He seems to think, for example, that prevaricate is a synonym for procrastinate. From Wordnik.com. [Maximizing Money] Reference
Demosthenes, as one who would turn aside or prevaricate, either in word or deed. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
It would not, in any case, be easy to lie to this woman, or even to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
And if he shuffle and prevaricate as to her, question him about Miss Lockyer. —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Vivaldi disdained to prevaricate, yet was shocked to own the truth thus abruptly. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
When you're unconscious, it's hard to hold things back, manipulate or prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [Paulette Cooper: I Took a Truth Serum Test] Reference
It is the nature of the office of Whitehouse press secretary to prevaricate, isn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: Lies from the Whitehouse; David Broder Says We Have to Take the President at His Word] Reference
"I think he will prevaricate and that the speedy marriage we hoped for may be delayed.". From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Queen]
Perhaps that was why Lyam had asked it, so that he wouldn't have a chance to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Breaking]
He did not really know the answer, but decided it was better to say no than to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
There was no reason to doubt their word, they had no reason to lie, none even to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
There's no such thing as a man willing to prevaricate in the bedroom but not in the boardroom. From Wordnik.com. [remembrance of zings past] Reference
He does not shuffle or prevaricate, dodge or skulk; but is honest, upright and straightforward. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
"Every one knows full well that it was you, who said those things, and do you yet prevaricate?". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Because when they don't lie, they avoid telling the truth, prevaricate and try to laugh it off. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Jenkins: Why We Wish The Clintons Would Just Go Away] Reference
If it maddened him, I couldn't help it, but I judge it better to be downright than to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [Madam Will You Talk]
“Every one knows full well that it was you, who said those things, and do you yet prevaricate?”. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
Rosen is simple and honest where our president and his advisors pose, prevaricate and publish position papers. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Kwiatkowski: George W. Bush Can Still Be a Hero!] Reference
Evil is perpetrated in the will, either by a longing to prevaricate or by affection for that which is prohibited. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
His mother would be pretty sure to ask where it came from, and David could not prevaricate so far as she was concerned. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
But with the US President on the case, and so much, including thousands of livelihoods at risk, he was absolutely right not to prevaricate. From Wordnik.com. [A Short and Winding Road for the Euro] Reference
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