prevaricate

To speak or write evasively; equivocate. synonym: lie.

To behave in an evasive or indecisive manner, usually in delay.

To utter or say in an evasive manner.

To deviate; swerve from the normal or proper course; stray.

To swerve from the truth; act or speak evasively; quibble.

In law: To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying the object which it is professed to promote.

To betray the cause of a client, and by collusion assist his opponent.

To pervert; cause to deviate from the normal or proper path, application, or meaning.

To transgress; violate.

To evade by a quibble; to transgress; to pervert.