Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:26:05 EST
Lie, Prevaricate, and Equivocate
- To lie…
- …is to utter a false statement.
- To prevaricate…
- …is to use ambiguous language to avoid telling the truth. Today, prevaricate is used interchangeably with equivocate, but prevaricate originally had a different denotation. To prevaricate was to split hairs, to nitpick, to interpret language differently from others to avoid telling the truth or to justify bad behavior.
- To equivocate…
- …is to use ambiguous language to avoid telling the truth.