All prevaricate synonyms

verb prevaricate

• misspeak — Express oneself insufficiently clearly or accurately.
• hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• argufy — to argue or quarrel, esp over something trivial
• misspeaking — (obsolete) Speaking ill; defamation, slander.
• misspoke — Simple past form of misspeak.
• fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
• hypercriticize — To criticize with unjust severity.
• drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
• misspoken — Simple past tense and past participle of misspeak.
• misinstruct — To instruct badly or wrongly.
• equivocate — Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself.
• get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• hedge — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• misquote — a quotation that is incorrect.
• quibble — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.