prevarication

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• There are twelve or thirteen of them brought here by him unaccounted for; hear his prevarications in the jail and elsewhere: and if he is an innocent man, cruelly imprisoned under an illegal warrant, and these vile, calumniatory libels, are actually this The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements
• It seems that CSIS witnesses may have engaged in "prevarication," and that material germane to Harkat's legal defence has been withheld by CSIS for no good reason. Archive 2009-05-01
• Now we are fed big pills of outright lies, prevarication, and deception.
• Cardinal, accused him of prevarication and weakness, and threw himself at her Majesty's feet, conjuring her in the name of the King her son, not to authorise, by an example which he called fatal, the insolence of a subject who was for wresting favours from his sovereign, sword in hand. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
• The above correspondence also shows that there was no "prevarication" on my part. Crowley and North [1991] « Climate Audit
• But the speaker for the defence will bring forward on his side the usage of common conversation; and he will seek the meaning of the word from its contrary; from a genuine accuser, to whom a prevarication is the exact opposite; or from consequents, because the tablets are given to the judge by the accuser; and from the name itself, which signifies a man who in contrary causes appears to be placed, as it were, in various positions. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
• It was getting a bit late for prevarications, cither to myself or anyone else. Sick Cycle Carousel
• You are looking for signs of weakness, for twitches that indicate untruthfulness, for signs of prevarication and mendacity. Dead Zero
• Are bloviating prevarications the rule rather than the exception?
• Even so, he has continued his policy of deception and prevarication.