Sample Sentences for
prevaricate
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    But Clary had no time for Valentine's prevarications.  (source)
    prevarications = ambiguities used to mislead or withhold information
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    He then prevaricated about it—he said he hadn't?  (source)
    prevaricated = lied (did not tell the truth)
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    If you tell me any lies, or attempt to prevaricate in any way, or even fall below your usual level of intelligence, you will cry out with pain, instantly.†  (source)
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    How he wouldn't prevaricate.†  (source)
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    It was no time for prevarication.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    By the time Linda drove me to the airport she had long since seen through my prevarications.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    So I prevaricated and didn't pay, seeing no end to paying if I should start.†  (source)
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    'How it is, you prevaricating little piece of goods!' cried Fanny.†  (source)
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    One prevaricates, one makes excuses for oneself, one gets out of it the best way one can.†  (source)
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    It was evident he took me for a perfectly shameless prevaricator.†  (source)
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    Delay, obscure, prevaricate.†  (source)
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    —answer me this instant, without prevarication!†  (source)
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    There was nothing unknown or unfamiliar in the path he was presumably to tread; but when he had trodden it before it was as a free man, who was accountable to no one for his actions, and could lend himself with an amused detachment to the game of precautions and prevarications, concealments and compliances, that the part required.†  (source)
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