prevarication
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
prevarication
- (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
- Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
- 2012, The Economist, Oct 6th 2012, Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano ↗
- 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.
- A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- (legal, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
- (legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- French: prévarication
- German: Verfehlung, Übertretung, Verstoß
- Spanish: prevaricación
- French: subterfuge, faux-fuyant, échappatoire, dérobade
- German: Ausflucht, Tatsachenverdrehung, Wahrheitsverzerrung
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