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prevaricate
(obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
To shift or turn from direct speech or behavior; to deviate from the truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
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Raja Subichar prevaricated not a little; but presently, being hard pushed, he related everything that had happened.
(law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
(law, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
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