prevaricative

If they would, the brag Sarah keeps repeating that she said "No thanks" when Congress tried to give Alaska the "Bridge [in the singular] to Nowhere" would have been outed instantaneously - using no tool other than a tape measure - as the prevaricative nonsense that it is.

Donald Craig Mitchell: This Week's Palin Primer From Alaska: Bristol and Levi, Earmarks, Troopergate, More 2008

So it seems the adjective the NYT should have used was not "discursive" but "prevaricative".

In anticipation of Friday's debate, the NYT sizes up Obama and McCain. Ann Althouse 2008

But even he may be tiring of these prevaricative tactics.

The New Republic - All Feed Marty Peretz 2010

[And the prevaricative writing, too, like the scoop on the Rove indictment.]

DUmmie FUnnies 2009