August 12, 2008

Prevaricate

prevaricate



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–verb (used without object)
to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.  

—Synonyms 
evade, shift.


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prevaricate, procrastinate (vv.)   
 
Both are pejorative: 
to prevaricate is "to mislead or lie (about something)"; 
to procrastinate is "to put (something) off," "to postpone or defer."


see quibble 

voracious 
procrastination


cavil (unnecessarily) 
quibble 
prevaricate (mislead)
equivocate (ambiguous to mislead)








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