Prevaricate vs Misrepresent - What's the difference?
prevaricate | misrepresent |
(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 verbs the difference between prevaricate and misrepresent
is that prevaricate is (transitive|intransitive|obsolete) to deviate, transgress; to go astray (from) while misrepresent is to represent falsely; to inaccurately portray something.prevaricate
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* (archaic)Verb
(prevaricat)- The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
