Nevertheless, invention endows its productions with an actualizing power that distinguishes it from the prevaricating, nonactualizing power of the lie.
My personal response was to suggest, in my review, that sociolinguistics needs to come down from the fence and stop prevaricating about the politics of 'standardness'.
For 10 months, the woman has been living on income support while her former husband skilfully evades the system by prevaricating over details.
For a fortnight or so there was no reply, and then there was a prevaricating reply, and finally we gathered that nothing would be done.
Indeed, rather than doing anything, it is prevaricating and stretching matters out so that none of the recommendations is implemented.
If this is so, what can be the point of prevaricating?
Why do you not come out like men and tell the truth instead of going round and round prevaricating?
Recently in my constituency a ground landlord, by prevaricating, almost endangered a constituent's application for a grant to the point of disqualification.
