If you prevaricate, you avoid giving a direct answer or making a firm decision.
British ministers continued to prevaricate. [VERB]
Synonyms: evade, lie, shift, hedge
prevarication (prɪværɪkeɪʃən )Word forms: prevarications variable noun After months of prevarication, the political decision had at last been made.
Synonyms: evasion, lies, deception, pretence