PrevaricateTo purposefully giveanswers that have nothing to do with the question that was asked.
Prevaricate When asked "Approximately how much did you cut cut the funding for housing vouchers?" The Secretary answered "I don't have the numbers in front of me."
A term to define the actions of one who is often prevaricative. While not commonly used after 1896, the term has resurged when no one one you work with believes that your usage of equivilate was proper.
I don’t know what he meant when he said my presentation was equivilative, he can be so prevarilative!
A Prevaricrat is a member of a form of oppression by a class of self-deluded liars (See "Terrorism" Part II.1 CCC. RSC 1985 c. C-46), whereupon, an Orwellian dystopia is the end result of any and all efforts to quell, to the contrary, or to stem as triage, any auspicion of a brighter tomorrow. A low-IQ is suspected as the possible "material misapprehension"
"Hey... Let's all just stick our heads up our asses and let the Prevaricrats handle the fallout while we pretend (equally as delusorily) we were doing something valuable for the betterment of Society.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).