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prevarication

/pɹəˌvɛɹəˈkeɪʃən/

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What does prevarication mean?

noun

  1. Evasion of the truth.
  2. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  3. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. (archaic) Deviation from what is right or correct.
  2. (historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.

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IPA pronunciation

/pɹəˌvɛɹəˈkeɪʃən/

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Let us see whether we cannot defend him from this reproach of falsity and prevarication.
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
And first let us inquire whether this at least singular idea of original prevarication had not, somewhere in the Christian theology, its correlative.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
More book examples (3)
We have heard it suggested in several cases by relatives that the menstrual period, for instance, brings about an access of tendency to prevarication.
William Healy; Mary Tenney HealyPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic PsychologyProject Gutenberg ebook #449
After a great deal of prevarication on all parts but his own, it was declared that he must die under his former sentence, now fifteen years old.
Charles DickensA Child's History of EnglandProject Gutenberg ebook #699
This paper is noted for its constant prevarication.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448