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Example sentences for: prevarication

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Rababah attributed his initial prevarication to wanting to protect the mosque from anti-Arab sentiment following September 11.
President John Kennedy attacked Diefenbaker’s hesitation and prevarication, and the Prime Minister was defeated at the next election, after the Canadian Liberals had jumped on the American bandwagon.
Should Clinton decide not to try, Beijing will react badly to what it will perceive as prevarication.
Nor is it a standard cover-your-ass prevarication (we are not involved in: the Bay of Pigs invasion/bombing Cambodia/trading arms for Iranian hostages).
William Safire argues that "Jesuitical" has by now developed a sense devoid of any overtones of prevarication: "subtle, intricate, moralistic reasoning, informed by a rigorous logic" is his definition.