meaning of prevaricates

1. To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement.
2.
To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
3.
To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
4.
To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.
5.
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information


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