Definitions from Wiktionary (prevarication)
▸ noun: (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
▸ noun: Evasion of the truth.
▸ noun: A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
▸ noun: (Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
▸ noun: (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
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▸ noun: (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
▸ noun: Evasion of the truth.
▸ noun: A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
▸ noun: (Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
▸ noun: (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Similar:
lying,
evasiveness,
equivocation,
fabrication,
deviation,
digression,
swerve,
aberration,
divagation,
departure,
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▸ Words similar to prevarication
▸ Usage examples for prevarication
▸ Idioms related to prevarication
▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing prevarication
▸ Words that often appear near prevarication
▸ Rhymes of prevarication
▸ Invented words related to prevarication