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prevarication
/pɹəˌvɛɹəˈkeɪʃən/
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What does prevarication mean?
noun
- Evasion of the truth.
- A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (archaic) Deviation from what is right or correct.
- (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.
And first let us inquire whether this at least singular idea of original prevarication had not, somewhere in the Christian theology, its correlative.
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We have heard it suggested in several cases by relatives that the menstrual period, for instance, brings about an access of tendency to prevarication.
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.
This paper is noted for its constant prevarication.