intransitive. To use subtilty or deceit, to use shifts or dodges; to haggle, cavil; to avoid coming to the point, hold off, hang back.

intransitive and reflexive. To get in, into or out of a position or condition, by some means or other, in an underhand, shifty, or evasive manner.

intransitive. To play fast and loose, change about deceitfully; to shuffle with a person; to prevaricate.

intransitive. To shift, equivocate, or prevaricate in action or speech; to act or deal evasively, esp. for treacherous ends; to use trickery.

To employ shifts or evasions; to practise or use indirect methods; to practise or live by fraud, or temporary expedients.

intransitive. To go aside from the straight way; to shift, shuffle, dodge; to trim; to avoid committing oneself irrevocably; to leave open a way…

‘To play fast or loose’ (Johnson); to palter, quibble, equivocate.

intransitive. To use subterfuges. Now rare.

intransitive. To deviate from straightforwardness; to speak or act in an evasive way; to quibble, equivocate.

So to shuffle up and down.

absol. or intransitive. To practise evasion.

intransitive. To practise sophistication.

intransitive. To trifle, shuffle.

intransitive. To blow in puffs or slight gusts; hence, to veer or shift about (of the wind; hence, of a ship). Often figurative or in figurative…

(intransitive) to twist the tongue; in quot. to prevaricate.

intransitive. To cavil, argue; to prevaricate. Cf. caffling, adj.

intransitive. To tread softly or lightly, so as to avoid being noticed; to move warily or stealthily; (also) to behave in a sly, furtive, or…

figurative. intransitive. To avoid a difficult or disagreeable issue; to speak or act evasively, to prevaricate.

intransitive. To tell a lie or lies; to practise deception. Also: to evade a duty, to malinger.

intransitive. To reach a makeshift solution by glossing over differences or blurring distinctions; to prevaricate or temporize.