Prevarication

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  • n. Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  • n. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
  • n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  • n. The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
  • n. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
  • n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  • n.
  • n. The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
  • n. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of prevaricating or deviating, especially from truth, honesty, or plain-dealing; evasion of truth or duty; quibbling or shuffling in words or conduct.
  • n. Transgression; violation: as, the prevarication of a law.
  • n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office or commission.
  • n. In law: The conduct of an advocate who betrayed the cause of his client, and by collusion assisted his opponent.
  • n. The undertaking of a thing falsely, with intent to defeat the object which it was professed to promote.
  • n. The wilful concealment or misrepresentation of truth by giving evasive and equivocating evidence.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
  • n. intentionally vague or ambiguous
  • n. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    untruthfulness    equivocalness    ambiguity   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    equivocation    paltering    shuffling    quibbling    evasion   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dissimulation    tergiversation    misstatement    subterfuge    equivocation   
     
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