prevarication
11prevarication — noun /pɹɪvaɹɪˈkeɪʃən/ a) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion. Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls. b) Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness …
12prevarication — prevaricate ► VERB ▪ avoid giving a direct answer when asked a question. DERIVATIVES prevarication noun prevaricator noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «transgress»: from Latin praevaricari walk crookedly, deviate …
13prevarication — noun see prevaricate …
14prevarication — See prevaricate. * * * …
15prevarication — Synonyms and related words: bickering, blague, boggling, bouncer, canard, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, cock and bull story, coloring, confabulation, distortion, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, fairy tale, false… …
16prevarication — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deception, dishonesty, falsehood; see lie 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The use or an instance of equivocal language: ambiguity, equivocation, equivoque, euphemism, hedge, shuffle, tergiversation, weasel word.… …
17prevarication — pre·var·i·ca·tion || prɪ‚værɪ keɪʃn n. deception, act of intentionally misleading; lie, untruth, false statement …
18prevarication — n. Equivocation, cavil, quibbling, shuffling …
19prevarication — n 1. lie, falsehood, untruth, fib, white lie, little white lie, quibble, overrefinement, Inf. taradiddle; equivocation, evasion, shuffling; pettifoggery, hairsplitting, caviling; fencing, evasiveness, elu siveness; chicanery, pretense, artfulness …
20prevarication — pre·var·i·ca·tion …
