Re: My suggestion
"“Prevaricating" means "lying""
Not necessarily. Don't believe me? Check the sources:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/prevaricate : "Speak or act in an evasive way."
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/prevaricate : "be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information"
To flat out lie means to intentionally speak something false. Prevarication still allows for speaking a truth: just one of no value. It also allows for saying things that are subject to a truth/lie evaluation because they are essentially meaningless. Think half-truths.
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