英语词汇“prevarication”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

prevarication

释义

prevaricate /pri-varˈi-kāt/

intransitive verb

To avoid stating the truth or coming directly to the point
To quibble
To deviate (obsolete)
To shift about from side to side (obsolete)
To undertake an enterprise with the object of wrecking it (obsolete)
To betray a client by collusion with his or her opponent (law)

transitive verb (obsolete)

To pervert, transgress

ORIGIN: L praevāricārī, -ātus to walk straddlingly or crookedly, to act collusively, from prae above, beyond, and vāricus straddling, from vārus bent

prevaricāˈtion noun

prevarˈicātor noun

Someone who prevaricates
Formerly in Cambridge University, a satirical orator at the ceremony of Commencement

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