PREVARICATING

Meaning of PREVARICATING in English

( p. pr. & vb. n. )

of Prevaricate

Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

PREVARICATING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prevaricate
Английский словарь Webster
PREVARICATING — p.pr. & ·vb.n. of prevaricate.
Webster English vocab
PREVARICATION — ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈkāshən noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English prevaricacioun deviation from duty, from Late Latin praevarication-, praevaricatio, from Latin, collusion, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PREVARICATION — (n.) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from …
Английский словарь Webster
PREVARICATION — ( n. ) The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHUFFLING — — shufflingly , adv. /shuf"ling/ , adj. 1. moving in a dragging or clumsy manner. 2. prevaricating; evasive. [ 1570-80; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
QUIBBLE — — quibbler , n. /kwib"euhl/ , n. , v. , quibbled, quibbling . n. 1. an instance of the use …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PREVARICATE — — prevarication , n. — prevaricative, prevaricatory /pri var"i keuh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/ , adj. /pri var"i kayt'/ , v.i. , …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EQUIVOCALLY — adv. ambiguously, in a prevaricating manner; questionably, doubtfully
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PREVARICATION — noun a secret abuse in the exercise of a public office. 2. prevarication ·noun the collusion of an informer with …
Webster English vocab
PULL ONE'S FINGER OUT BRIT. — pull one's finger out Brit. informal cease prevaricating and start to act. → finger
Concise Oxford English vocab
FINGER — ■ noun each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand (or five, if the thumb is included). …
Concise Oxford English vocab
JAPAN, FLAG OF — national flag consisting of a white field bearing a central red disk (a stylized sun). The flag has a width-to-length …
Britannica English vocabulary
PREVARICATE — / prɪˈværɪkeɪt; NAmE / verb ( formal ) to avoid giving a direct answer to a question in order to …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EVASION — / ɪˈveɪʒn; NAmE / noun [ C , U ] 1. the act of avoiding sb or of avoiding sth …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FINGER — n. & v. --n. 1 any of the terminal projections of the hand (including or excluding the thumb). 2 the …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
EVASION — n. 1 the act or a means of evading. 2 a a subterfuge or prevaricating excuse. b an evasive answer. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FINGER — n. & v. n. 1 any of the terminal projections of the hand (including or excluding the thumb). 2 the …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EVASION — n. 1 the act or a means of evading. 2 a a subterfuge or prevaricating excuse. b an evasive answer. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FINGER — n. & v. --n. 1. any of the terminal projections of the hand (including or excluding the thumb). 2 the …
Oxford English vocab
EVASION — n.1 the act or a means of evading. 2 a a subterfuge or prevaricating excuse. b an evasive answer. Etymology: …
Oxford English vocab
PREVARICATE — ( prevaricates, prevaricating, prevaricated) If you prevaricate , you avoid giving a direct answer or making a firm decision. British …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PREVARICATE — (~s, prevaricating, ~d) If you ~, you avoid giving a direct answer or making a firm decision. British ministers continued …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PREVARICATE — verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Judge Greene said Tate was prevaricating to avoid having to testify against his ex-boss. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LABOUR — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a Labour/Democratic/Tory etc majority ▪ Republican majorities were elected in both Houses of Congress …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BRING — verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES add/give/bring a new etc dimension to sth ▪ Digital cameras have added a new dimension …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PREVARICATE — [verb] [I] [formal] - to avoid telling the truth, making a decision or saying what you thinkI'm never one to …
Cambridge English vocab
UNTRUTHFUL — Synonyms and related words : artful, calculating, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, disingenuous, equivocal, FALSE, falsehearted, forsworn, inaccurate, incorrect, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PERJURED — Synonyms and related words : artful, calculating, crafty, deceitful, dishonest, disingenuous, equivocal, falsehearted, forsworn, insincere, lying, mendacious, prevaricating, scheming, truthless, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
MENDACIOUS — Synonyms and related words : deceitful, dishonest, equivocal, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, FALSE, fibbing, forsworn, knavish, lying, paltering, perjured, prevaricating, roguish, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
LYING — Synonyms and related words : accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche, crawling, credibility gap, debasement, deceit, deceitful, deceptive, decumbency, decumbent, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary

Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary

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