Associations to the word «Prevarication»

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

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