prevaricate

  1. Verb.  (transitive, intransitive) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
  3. Verb.  (intransitive) To behave in an evasive way such as to delay action; to procrastinate.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive, legal) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

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