In the school for girls, where this unfortunate child remained for four years, it is stated that her tendencies to prevarication were mitigated, but never entirely checked.
The mental conditions leading to purposeless prevaricationwhich supervene in the real hysterical mental states, or during the course of traumatic psychoneurosis are well known.
His habits of prevarication have been kept up steadily, so it is stated.
Mr. Wayne, this prevarication is as useless as it is unseemly.
Arthur handed him the letter, somewhat to the other's surprise, for he had certainly been watching for an attempt at its destruction, or at least was prepared for prevarication and stratagem.
Women, like men, often do not know that the big prizes gravitate where they belong; instead, they set traps for them, lie in wait and consider prevarication and duplicity better than truth.
That Kant was not above a little pious prevarication is shown by a story he himself tells.
But this presumption ought not to have been allowed to excuse prevarication about testimony.
Your merchant of that time was a peripatetic rogue who reduced prevarication to a system.
The splenetic capacity, the calumnious credulity, the pleasures of prevarication and of rolling falsehoods like a sweet morsel under the tongue, have made those thirty thousand Cromwell pamphlets possible.
What a strange medley of evasion, pretended discovery, real concealment, fraud, and prevarication appears in every part of this letter!
Now do you want an instance of prevarication and trickery in an account?
There seemed no great temptation to prevarication either, for the general's question was not of a formidable nature, not what the lawyers call a leading question, rather one that led to nothing.
The difficulty of telling the whole had increased to Lady Cecilia, even from the hesitation and prevarication she had now made.
Prevarication of every kind partakes of the very essence of lying, being not only subversive of social happiness, by preventing all confidential intercourse amongst mankind, but diametrically opposed to the commands of God.
Here was no concealment; no prevarication respecting the whole truth; and how much better was this than any attempt at evasion or dishonesty!
In that evidence there was much of mere belief, and much prevarication on the part of some of the witnesses; but the house came to the conclusion that a clear case of bribery and corruption had been established.
Aristippus and the Kyrenaics of prevarication and sophistry in the statement of their doctrine respecting Pleasure.
I know no evidence for either of these allegations: either for the prevarication of Aristippus or the ingenuousness of Eudoxus.
He contrasts with this prevarication the ingenuousness of Eudoxus, as the advocate of Pleasure (Aristot.
I don't say that you have any certainty of recovering a place in your uncle's esteem, but the slightest prevarication in matters of this kind would be simply suicidal.
In matters where your Church is concerned, Mr. Carmel, I have heard that prevarication is a merit.
Prevarication is conviction," thought Fairlie, with a deadly chill over him.
And I said: My secret to myself, my secret to myself, woe is me: the prevaricators have prevaricated, and with the prevarication of transgressors they have prevaricated.
The prevarication of too many in so sacred a matter contributed not a little to fortify the growing atheism of the present age.
At home, he shrank and hesitated at the simplest question if put by his father suddenly; and the appearance of cowardice and prevarication displeasing Dr.
The editor has, in defiance of notorious facts, represented Sir John Fenwick's disclosures as false; and twice charges him with prevarication (p.
It is equally necessary (or rather more so, since evidence not being on oath in the lower house, there can be no punishment in the course of law) that the contumacy or prevarication of witnesses should incur a similar penalty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prevarication" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
