prevaricating
41untruthful — Synonyms and related words: artful, calculating, crafty, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, delusory, dishonest, disingenuous, equivocal, FALSE, falsehearted, forsworn, inaccurate, incorrect, insincere, knavish, lying, mendacious, misleading,… …
42untrue — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. false, misleading, specious, lying, hollow, deceptive, delusive, untrustworthy, deceitful, sham, fake, spurious, meretricious, incorrect, prevaricating, dissembling,… …
43prevaricate — 1580s, to transgress, from L. praevaricari to make a sham accusation, deviate, lit. walk crookedly; in Church L., to transgress (see PREVARICATION (Cf. prevarication)). Meaning to speak evasively is from 1630s. Related: Prevaricated;… …
44drag-arsing — n British lingering, delaying or prevaricating. An item of student slang in use in London and elsewhere since around 2000 …
45prevaricate — [[t]prɪvæ̱rɪkeɪt[/t]] prevaricates, prevaricating, prevaricated VERB If you prevaricate, you avoid giving a direct answer or making a firm decision. British ministers continued to prevaricate. Derived words: prevarication… …
46equivocally — adv. ambiguously, in a prevaricating manner; questionably, doubtfully …
47finger — noun each of the four slender jointed parts attached to either hand (or five, if the thumb is included). ↘a measure of spirits in a glass, based on the breadth of a finger. verb 1》 touch or feel with the fingers. 2》 (usu. finger someone for)… …
48pull one's finger out Brit. — pull one s finger out Brit. informal cease prevaricating and start to act. → finger …
49shuffling — I. a. Quibbling, prevaricating, evasive, disingenuous. II. n. Trick, artifice, duplicity, fraud …
50evasive — adjective the judge was infuriated by the defendant s evasive answers Syn: equivocal, prevaricating, elusive, ambiguous, noncommittal, vague, inexplicit, unclear; roundabout, indirect; informal cagey, shifty, slippery See note at frank …
