Despite the fact that there was but little room where Zotique was sitting, the shameless, prevaricating fellow impressed upon her that seats in that particular quarter were actually going begging.
It was owing to the abhorred fashion of the North-West Mounted Police, of confiscating drinks that were not mild, that Shuter was led to display this prevaricating sign.
Directors false and prevaricating accounts of them, they were never able to obtain a full disclosure from him.
It is perhaps a much more dangerous way; because it adds to the crime a false, prevaricating mode of concealing it, and makes it much more mischievous by admitting others into the participation of it.
Hear what prevaricating guilt says for the falsehood and delusion which had been used to cover it; and see how he plunges deeper and deeper upon every occasion.
Lord Filmar,' said my father, 'you are the most impertinent prevaricating puppy I ever knew in my life.
But examine the matter, and you will see that the prevaricating sons of violence give no relief at all, where at all it can be wanted.
Prevaricating replies lead to suspicion, and suspicion to discovery.
You would have been amused, if you had heard that sly young person prevaricating with me.
The confusion was vastly added to by the many vagaries of her alleged parent, but, even so, one of the chief accusations of the prevaricating mother was that the girl herself was a terrible liar.
His prevaricating nearly always centers about himself as some sort of a hero and represents him to be a particularly good-hearted and even definitely philanthropic person--one who loves all creatures and does much for others.
The idea that the grandmother passed on as inheritance her prevaricating traits is open to discussion, but we have seen that environmental influences from this source may have been the only effect, if there was any at all.
At the time when we were studying his case his prevaricating tendencies were shown in the manufacture of long and complicated stories, in the center of which he himself posed as the chief actor.
Randal flattered himself that he had made a prevaricating reply simply impossible.
Meanwhile, there was a considerable reaction in prevaricating Bavaria.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prevaricating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dishonest; equivocal; evasive; forsworn; lying; mendacious; perjured; untruthful
