| Prevaricate 1. (v. i.) To use ambiguous or evasive answers; to equivocate; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. 2. (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. 3. (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. 4. (v. t.) To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert. Thesaurus Entries around the bush, back and fill, be untruthful, beat about, beg the question, belie, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, deceive, dodge, draw the longbow, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, exaggerate, falsify, fence, fib, garble, hedge, hem and haw, hum and haw, lie, lie flatly, mince the truth, mince words, mislead, misrepresent, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palter, parry, pick nits, pussyfoot, quibble, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, speak falsely, split hairs, story, stretch the truth, tell a lie, tergiversate, waffle, weasel |