prevaricate

I do not use ambiguous language; nor do I prevaricate.

"I don't know" is a toxic phrase for leaders to utter, so they prevaricate and confabulate.

If I have to prevaricate to get something I want in a business setting, I have no problem with that.

There's no need to ask folks to prevaricate about whether diversity or quality are at odds.

From this arises the temptation to be disingenuous or outright prevaricate, if you can get away with it. Does seem a cultural change is in order.

Put a bunch of junior devs on the project, and they'll prevaricate about issues such as "tabs vs spaces".The whole article sounded too much like a rant.

They dissemble and prevaricate and may even try to block implementation of solutions.

You start to become 'that guy', nobody wants to spend time with you because you're so disagreeable, and you prevaricate on every decision.

So they prevaricate and eventually the money gets spent abroad in places like Europe or Asia, where double taxation treaties work properly.

But they do seem to find it possible to have children in rather inauspicious circumstances while those of us further up the social food chain bite our nails and prevaricate about breeding under any circumstances other than perfect.

A lot of the research around the evolution of intelligence suggests that some large part of what we think of as intelligence is inherently intertwined with the ability to socially signal, prevaricate, and negotiate: to assert social dominance of a group through out-thinking rivals and being better at swaying the majority against those rivals.

But there's a flipside to this, if we do not want others to abuse and conflate our terms of art to prevaricate or dissemble, if we do not want policy based upon irrational emotion and and half-truths to hobble our ability to work, then we should not do the same regarding other fields, and have a duty to call out our own when we see it being done.