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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-460/
- Published: 2021-05-02T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-19T19:05:32.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

prevaricate (verb) –  
to deviate from the truth

Source : [Online Etymology Dictionary](https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=prevaricate&ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 1580s, “to go aside from the right course or mode of action” (originally figurative, now obsolete), a back formation from prevarication or else from Latin praevaricatus, past participle of praevaricari “to make a sham accusation, deviate” (from the path of duty), literally “walk crookedly;” in Church Latin, “to transgress.” The meaning “to act or speak evasively, swerve from the truth” is from 1630s.

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