Prevaricate

глагол увиливать, говорить уклончиво, изворачиваться Синоним(ы): quibble, shuffle, equivocate

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Prevaricate

intransitive verb (-cated; -cating) Etymology: Latin praevaricatus, past participle of praevaricari to act in collusion, literally, to straddle, from prae- + varicare to straddle, from varus bowlegged to deviate from the truth; equivocate Synonyms: see lieprevarication nounprevaricator noun

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