PREVARICATES Synonyms

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

• an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

• a quick evasive movement

• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

• make a sudden movement in a new direction so as to avoid

• move to and fro or from place to place usually in an irregular course

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• a trivial lie

• tell a relatively insignificant lie

• a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes

• any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change

• an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge

• enclose or bound in with or as it with a hedge or hedges

• minimize loss or risk

• to go stealthily or furtively

• an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

• evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

• argue over petty things

• the act of mixing cards haphazardly

• walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

• walk by dragging one's feet

• move about, move back and forth

• mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

• a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• pancake batter baked in a waffle iron

• pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

• be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information