Associations to the word «Prevarication»
Noun
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Wiktionary
PREVARICATION, noun. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
PREVARICATION, noun. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
PREVARICATION, noun. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
PREVARICATION, noun. (legal) (historical) (Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
PREVARICATION, noun. (legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Dictionary definition
PREVARICATION, noun. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
PREVARICATION, noun. Intentionally vague or ambiguous.
PREVARICATION, noun. The deliberate act of deviating from the truth.
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.