Prevaricate

prevaricate







Y

D



–verb (used without object)

to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.  



—Synonyms 

evade, shift.





C



prevaricate, procrastinate (vv.)   

 

Both are pejorative: 

to prevaricate is "to mislead or lie (about something)"; 

to procrastinate is "to put (something) off," "to postpone or defer."





see quibble 



voracious 

procrastination





cavil (unnecessarily) 

quibble 

prevaricate (mislead)

equivocate (ambiguous to mislead)