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| | prevaricate | (พริแว'ริเคท) vi. โกหก, พูดกลับกลอก, พูดหลบหลีก, พูดปัดภาระ, See also: prevarication n. prevaricative adj. prevaricatory adj. prevaricator n. |
| | | | | กุ | [ku] (v) EN: lie ; equivocate ; fib ; palter ; prevaricate ; fabricate FR: feindre ; simuler | | มุสา | [musā] (v) EN: lie ; fib ; tell a lie ; tell untruths ; falsify ; prevaricate ; utter a falsehood |
| | | | Prevaricate | v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Prevaricated p. pr. & vb. n. Prevaricating. ] [ L. praevaricatus, p. p. of praevaricari to walk crookedly, to collude; prae before + varicare to straddle, fr. varicus straddling, varus bent. See Varicose. ] 1. To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. [ 1913 Webster ] He prevaricates with his own understanding. South. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Civil Law) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Eng. Law) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- To evade; equivocate; quibble; shuffle. -- Prevaricate, Evade, Equivocate. One who evades a question ostensibly answers it, but really turns aside to some other point. He who equivocate uses words which have a double meaning, so that in one sense he can claim to have said the truth, though he does in fact deceive, and intends to do it. He who prevaricates talks all round the question, hoping to “dodge” it, and disclose nothing. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Prevaricate | v. t. To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Prevarication | n. [ L. praevaricatio: cf. F. prévarication. ] 1. The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. [ 1913 Webster ] The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution. (b) (Common Law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Prevaricator | n. [ L. praevaricator: cf. F. prévaricateur. ] 1. One who prevaricates. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Roman Law) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. One who betrays or abuses a trust. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| | お茶を濁す | [おちゃをにごす, ochawonigosu] (exp, v5s) (1) to be evasive; to give an evasive answer; (2) to speak ambiguously; to prevaricate; (3) to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation; (4) to make do with [Add to Longdo] | | 一寸逃れ | [いっすんのがれ, issunnogare] (n) quibbling; prevarication [Add to Longdo] | | 散布度 | [さんぷど, sanpudo] (n) { comp } irrelevance; prevarication; spread [Add to Longdo] | | 散布量 | [さんぷりょう, sanpuryou] (n) { comp } irrelevance; prevarication; spread [Add to Longdo] | | 濁す | [にごす, nigosu] (v5s, vt) (1) to make muddy (a liquid); to make cloudy; to make turbid; to roil; (2) (See お茶を濁す・2) to prevaricate; to speak ambiguously; (P) [Add to Longdo] |
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