- prevaricative
- pre·var·i·ca·tive
English syllables. 2014.
prevaricative
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prevaricative — ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌkād.iv, kəd. adjective : tending to prevaricate prevaricative writers … Useful english dictionary
prevaricate — prevarication, n. prevaricative, prevaricatory /pri var i keuh tawr ee, tohr ee/, adj. /pri var i kayt /, v.i., prevaricated, prevaricating. to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie. [1575 85; … Universalium
evasive — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. deceptive, misleading, equivocal, shifty; see dishonest 1 , false 2 , obscure 1 , sly 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. deceitful, elusive, slippery, equivocal, shifty, hedging, tricky, shuffling, dissembling,… … English dictionary for students
deceitful — adj 1. insincere, disingenuous, false, mendacious, untruthful, hollow; dishonest, underhanded, untrustworthy, crooked; wily, tricky, designing, scheming, guileful, double dealing; artful, crafty, Machiavellian, cunning, sly, snaky, foxy; subtle,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
designing — adj 1. scheming, calculating, intriguing, conspiring, plotting, conniving; guileful, dou bledealing, tricky, wily; sharp, shrewd, politic, artful, crafty, Machiavellian, cunning, sly, snaky, foxy; subtle, insidious, collusive, circumventive,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
devious — adj 1. indirect, roundabout, circumven tive, dodging, evasive, deviating; circuitous, winding, curvy, worming, flexuous, sinuous, anfractuous, tortuous, serpentine, zigzag; vagrant, wandering, meandering, unsettled, unstable. 2. tricky, cunning,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
evasive — adj prevaricative, quibbling, equivocating, shuffling; tergiversating, vacillating, wavering; ambiguous, amphibolic, elusive, slippery, evanescent, fleeting; misleading, roundabout, circuitous, ambagious, hedging, weasel worded, double tongued;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
mendacious — adj 1. false, untrue, fraudulent, deceptive, prevaricative, perjured, misleading; fictitious, falsified, distorted, fabricated, invented, made up, trumped up; spurious, sham, bogus, mock, feigned, pretended, make believe; exaggerated,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
quibbling — adj 1. carping, caviling, pettifogging, hairsplitting, niggling, Inf. nitpicking; Jesuitical, sophistical, casuistic, Logic. paralogistic; critical, hypercritical, captious, censorious, overcritical, faultfinding. 2. prevaricative, prevaricatory … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
untruthful — adj mendacious, lying, fibbing, unveracious; dishonest, deceitful, insincere, uncandid, disingenuous; collusive, Law. covinous; dissembling, deceiving, hypocritical, two faced, Pharisaical; perjured, forsworn, prevaricative; misleading,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
