单词 | prevaricating |
释义 | preˈvaricating, ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ing2.] 1. That prevaricates; swerving from the proper course or from straightforward statement; quibbling.
1641R. Brathwait Merc. Brit. B j b, Pious bashfulnesse is unusuall to prevaricating transgressors. 1713Addison Ct. Tariff 12 The Court found him such a False, Shuffling, Prevaricating Rascal. 1833J. H. Newman Arians iv. iii. (1876) 308 Creeds, which were..intolerable only because the badges of a prevaricating party. 2. Deflecting light so as to show objects crookedly. rare.
1870Lowell Study Wind. 237 Flowers..made of French cambric spangled with dewdrops of prevaricating glass. |

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