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
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.