Prevarication

Definition:

• (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.) 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.

Compare prevarication with other words:

evasion vs. prevarication

prevarication vs. prevaricator

prevaricate vs. prevarication

prevarication vs. prosecution

prevarication vs. sham

defendant vs. prevarication

informer vs. prevarication

exercise vs. prevarication

collusion vs. prevarication

abuse vs. prevarication

prevarication vs. secret

deceit vs. prevarication

perversion vs. prevarication

prevarication vs. truth

prevarication vs. transgression

correct vs. prevarication

prevarication vs. right

equivocation vs. prevarication

lie vs. prevarication