Artful vs Prevaricate - What's the difference?
artful | prevaricate |
Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
Artificial; imitative.
Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful.
Cunning; disposed to cunning indirectness of dealing; crafty; as, an artful boy. [The usual sense.]
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(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
(legal) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
(legal, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
As an adjective artful
is performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.As a verb prevaricate is
(transitive|intransitive|obsolete) to deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).artful
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* (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Where the Czech upstart Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight. }}
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* See alsoDerived terms
* artful dodger * artfully * artfulnessprevaricate
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* (archaic)Verb
(prevaricat)- The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
