to deliberately avoid the truth
to mislead
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
SYN - beat around the bush, equivocate, palten, tergiversate
"He could tell both politicians had become masterful at these sort of attempts to prevaricate about their pasts."
"he had no tolerance for the way she would prevaricate him about her feelings."
"He wanted to get to the pith of this story and all this prevarication was really getting him, usually phlegmatic, rather irritated."
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