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Перевод: prevaricate

[глагол]
увиливать; кривить душой; говорить уклончиво

Тезаурус:

1. Some people recoiled in horror from this strong language, since prevaricate is defined in dictionaries as meaning "to lie".
2. It was almost unthinkable that the Americans would refuse outright to grant the exemption, but it quickly became clear that they would prevaricate for as long as possible.
3. At first, Stockwood seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions about his admiration for Ceauescu: his praise, he said, referred to Ceauescu before he went off the rails.
4. A lot of speakers think this is what prevaricate means; it is rather like procrastinate (put off until tomorrow) and the "stall" meaning makes sense in most contexts where the word is actually used.
5. Now that we were the only hostages there I had no reason to worry, or prevaricate, over the consequences of an escape attempt.
6. There will be no point telling speakers they are using prevaricate wrongly, because usage is the main criterion for meaning.
7. If enough speakers draw the conclusion that prevaricate means "stall", and use it accordingly, the meaning "lie" will become obsolete.
8. Without a text to assist them they may prevaricate too long before facing the brutal truth.
9. I have always felt that the ASB's function is to pronounce, not prevaricate.
10. This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading, I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems.
11. "Now don't prevaricate," he warned softly.
12. The exclusion of the renunciation clauses weakened the force of the treaty; it gave both sides the opportunity to prevaricate and, in the event, the renunciations were never carried out.
13. "How did you come to the town?" she asked, to prevaricate.