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Prevarication   /prəvˌɛrəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Prevarication  n.  
1.
The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. "The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail."
2.
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
3.
(Law)
(a)
(Roman Law) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(b)
(Common Law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.





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"Prevarication" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be done out of our Russians by any mere UNDER-SECRETARY FOR WAR; certainly not one who is capable of such prevarication. And anyhow, why should the Germans do ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914 • Various
... glance on the group; but when he perceived his man, Roque, whose presence deprived him of the little opportunity left for prevarication, hope forsook him, and the presence of mind which had served him on so many occasions proved utterly insufficient at this critical moment. He foresaw that any attempt at exculpation would be as fruitless as dangerous. He therefore continued ...
— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio
... I asked, as I extricated the four-year-old witness from Harriet's chiffon and violets. I doubted if young Susan had attained the years of prevarication as yet. I ...
— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess
... smirked mirthlessly; he saw no reason for being joyful over the lie he had told. He was getting deeper and deeper into the mire of deceit and prevarication, and there seemed ...
— Square Deal Sanderson • Charles Alden Seltzer
... Twain's favourite themes for the display of his humour was the subject of prevarication. He seemed never to tire of ringing the changes upon the theme of the lie, its utility, its convenience, and its consequences. Doubtless he chose to dabble in falsehood because it is generally winked at as the most venial of all moral obliquities—a fault which is the most thoroughly universal ...
— Mark Twain • Archibald Henderson


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