wykręcić się od odpowiedzi — meaning in English
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English meaning
- equivocate verb To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
- prevaricate verb To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
Senses
wykręcić się od odpowiedzi is used for these senses in English:
- equivocate (intransitive) To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
- prevaricate (intransitive) To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
equivocate — full definition
- verb To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
- verb To render equivocal or ambiguous.
prevaricate — full definition
- verb To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
- verb To speak or act in a manner that is intentionally ambiguous or evasive; equivocate.
- verb To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
- verb To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.