Jake Tapper

Don't get me wrong: politicians have been lying for a long time, long before Donald Trump was born, but the degree of just nonstop rage, grievance, prevarication, I haven't seen, probably because we haven't had a direct line from a politician's id to the public before.

American Journalist

Robin Marantz Henig

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

Writer

Goldwin Smith

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

Canadian Historian

Anna Wintour

Even if you aren't sure of yourself, pretend that you are... most people prevaricate.

English Editor

Parineeti Chopra

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

Indian Actress

Prevaricate is used when someone doesn't answer questions directly, often to avoid the truth.

Indirect Answers

People might prevaricate when they feel uncomfortable or want to avoid conflict.

Hiding Discomfort

Prevaricating can be a strategy to delay or avoid making a decision or commitment.

Delaying Tactics

 it still works effectively keep it simple if you're going to write about a banana you're not going to call it an elongated yellow piece of fruit you're going to call it a banana if you're going to talk about someone lying you're not going to say prevaricate you're going to say lie

Prevaricate

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Hiding Discomfort

Delaying Tactics

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