“A half-truth is more deadly than an outright prevarication.”

“The BBMP's constant prevarication on the fate of captured stray dogs understandably led to questions about what was being done to them.”

“I met people who had endured 12 hours of mis-information and prevarication before they boarded a plane.”

“And most of them honestly believe that we will be worse off if we vote for the prevaricator in the other party.”

“He was not willingly a prevaricator, and hated thoroughly to make explanations concerning it.”

“In his dealings with the Spanish throne, he was an inveterate exaggerator and prevaricator.”

“We do not care about the silly prevarications of politicians, whether it be about the democratic system or weapons of mass destruction.”

“Consequently, be alert for prevarications or oblique ways of refusing a request or suggestion.”

“But almost as soon as the date was agreed upon, Mr Savimbi embarked on his customary prevarications.”

“If everything doesn't change, I'm going to make it my personal mission to smoke out the guilty parties and expose them as prevaricators.”

“But the future of these two relatively junior prevaricators is not really the point.”

“They are all castrated, effete prevaricators, and there isn't a real man among them to stand up and dare say the truth.”