Friday, May 18, 2012

prevarication

prevarication

  1. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  2. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
    Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
  3. Evasiveness as a means of playing for time; procrastination, hesitancy.

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talk nineteen to the dozen

  to speak rapidly and without stopping