PREVARICATION, a divergence from the truth, equivocation, quibbling, a want of plain-dealing or straightforwardness, especially a deliberate misrepresentation by evasive answers, often used as a less offensive synonym for a lie. [Please select]
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Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking. [Please select]
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His argument is of merciless length, and occasionally so minute as to sound like quibbling. [Please select]
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Oh, Miss Lucretia, who pride yourself on your plain speaking, that you should be caught quibbling. [Please select]
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"Laura," he cried, "let us end this fencing and quibbling once and for all." [Please select]
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Corthell," so it was worded, "you asked me to-night that our fencing and quibbling be brought to an end. [Please select]
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The arguments employed are of very different value: some are important and sound, others are confused or quibbling. [Please select]
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They cannot be altogether cheated out of their rights by sophisms and quibbling. [Please select]
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No; clearly the only sensible thing to do was to end all the talk and quibbling at once, definitely. [Please select]
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Full of fun he was when with his friends, punning, quibbling and joking in quaint and original ways that made him welcome wherever he went. [Please select]
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Look to it that you speak us truly, for if we find any false swearing or quibbling, 't will fare ill with you. [Please select]
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