Significados de little prevarication en inglés

That was simply a little prevarication to worry you, my uncle, after the manner in which you have worried me.

Faith heard him without betraying any of her ordinary waywardness, and answered with as little prevarication as the subject seemed to demand.

No, his little prevarications and dodgings will not make him a liar, but he can see that they surely will in John Smith's case.