prevarication
Plural: prevarications
Noun
- a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- intentionally vague or ambiguous
- the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- Deviation from what is right or correct.
- Evasion of the truth.
- A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
- A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Examples
- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
Origin / Etymology
From Anglo-Norman prevaricassion, Middle French prevarication, and their source, Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; transgression; deceit”), from the stem of praevāricor.
Synonyms
equivocation, evasiveness, fabrication, lie, lying, deceit, perversion, transgression
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