Usage of "beat around the bush"

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Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.

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Examples for "prevaricate"

To prevaricate with herself or with him was out of the question. 
 Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time 

Demosthenes would never turn aside or prevaricate, either in word or deed. 
 The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch / Being Parts of the "Lives" of Pl... 

I felt bound to prevaricate, for the sake of my own peace. 
 Big Game: A Story for Girls 

He should have no opportunity to prevaricate if I once challenged him. 
 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 

It has not occurred to me to think that you will prevaricate. 
 Can You Forgive Her? 

I did not know how to answer, and I would not equivocate. 
 The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0... 

Three other ministers agreed with him except that they did not equivocate. 
 Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri... 

But she did not dare to equivocate as to her precarious state. 
 East Lynne 

But never for a moment did he falter, or waver, or equivocate. 
 Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler 

To falter, or equivocate, or dissemble to this woman would be wicked. 
 Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 

I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women. 
 The Lost Continent 

They only make you forget Jehovah-youfools-youpoor, blind fools-topalter so! 
 The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West 

Since murder was that man's intention, why should he palter with small details? 
 A Tramp Abroad 

You may be cold enough to palter with fire that has burned you, Theodora. 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 / A Magaz... 

When a man is going on my journey he does not palter with truth. 
 Simon the Jester 

He is well-meaning, but he vacillates; at times he even tergiversates- ashockingthing. 
 The Crown of Life 

Usage of beat around the bush in English

Central Bank of Ireland governor Patrick Honohan doesn't beat around the bush. 
 The Irish Times 

Answering the questions Why do I have to beat around the bush? 
 Wired 

These people aren't there to be superficial or beat around the bush. 
 Still alice 

Don't beat around the bush, Anna; is it money, or what? 
 'Way Down East / A Romance of New England Life 

The governor obviously felt this was no time to beat around the bush. 
 News.com.au 

Short head line means you think directly and don't beat around the bush. 
 Halo 

I've never been one to beat around the bush, he said. 
 Good girls don't 

And let's not beat around the bush here: these are touts. 
 The Irish Times 

Let's not beat around the bush when it comes to that. 
 The South African 

Or at least we tend to beat around the bush and avoid the situation. 
 The new yorker 

Armstrong greeted her, then said, Listen, I don't want to beat around the bush. 
 The cold room 

They are straightforward South Africans don't beat around the bush. 
 The South African 

Leave it to Tyler not to beat around the bush. 
 Dying for Dinner (A Cooking Class Mystery) 

You don't have to beat around the bush with me. 
 The girl with the dragon tattoo 

We're not going to beat around the bush, South Africa needs jobs by the bucketload. 
 The South African 

So I'm not going to beat around the bush. 
 "Undo": A Novel 

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Meanings of beat around the bush in English