Prevarication

Quick meaning: Prevarication is a noun meaning Evasion of the truth.

Meaning

Evasion of the truth.

More Meanings

1. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
2. (Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
3. (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
4. (archaic, now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.

Example Sentences

If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.

Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.

The trumpet—vvill it ſound? the curtain riſe? And ſhow th' auguſt tribunal of the ſkies, / VVhere no prevarication ſhall avail, / VVhere eloquence and artifice ſhall fail, […]

Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.

Word Forms

• prevarications

Synonyms for prevarication

Depending on context, synonyms include deceit, evasiveness, transgression, perversion, lie, fabrication.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include evasiveness, lying, equivocation, lie, fabrication, deception.

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