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Example sentences for "prevaricate"

Lexicographically close words:
prevails; prevalence; prevalency; prevalent; prevalently; prevaricated; prevaricating; prevarication; prevarications; prevaricator
  1. When these circumstants shall but live to see The time that I prevaricate from thee.

  2. As regards your question, however, I will not prevaricate nor deceive you, but what the old man of the sea told me, so much will I tell you in full.

  3. As regards your questions, however, I will not prevaricate nor deceive you, but will tell you without concealment all that the old man of the sea told me.

  4. I had been led to prevaricate as to the moment I entered the lower gateway, and he may have done the same as to the hour he left by the upper hall window.

  5. It is an appeal to God as a most upright Judge whether we do prevaricate in asserting what we do not believe true, or in promising what we are not firmly resolved to perform.

  6. You can go and see your mother secretly, and if you can but get her to prevaricate a little in her testimony it will knock it all up.

  7. Oh, she'll prevaricate enough if they do but press her hard," said John Ayliffe.

  8. But if there is no injustice resulting from a lie, I prevaricate against right in lying, but my sin is not a serious offense.

  9. We have seen that, in order to prevaricate it is not sufficient to transgress the Law of God: we must know; conscience makes us know.

  10. Evil is perpetrated in the will, either by a longing to prevaricate or by affection for that which is prohibited.

  11. If you palter or prevaricate with me, I shall know that it is because you fear to tell me the truth.

  12. Am I a fool, that people can prevaricate and lie to me like this?

  13. Mr. Null began to prevaricate at the outset.

  14. To prevaricate with herself or with him was out of the question.

  15. Oh, to be able once more to prevaricate like that!

  16. They don't have to tell the truth all the time, but on the contrary, are privileged to prevaricate in the most artistic manner.

  17. When witnesses prevaricate so hopelessly, how far can you believe them?

  18. The Count de Morseiul felt that a crisis in his fate had arrived; but, with the question put to him so simply and straight-forwardly, he felt that he could not evade the decision, and he would not prevaricate even for safety.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prevaricate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bicker; boggle; cavil; deceive; dodge; duck; evade; exaggerate; falsify; fence; hedge; lie; mislead; misrepresent; mystify; obscure; palter; parry; prevaricate; quibble; shift; shuffle; shy; sidestep; stall; waffle; weasel