prevarication
n . 支吾,搪塞
支吾,搪塞
prevarication n 1 :
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth [
synonym :
{
lie }, {
prevarication }]
2 :
intentionally vague or ambiguous [
synonym : {
equivocation },
{
prevarication }, {
evasiveness }]
3 :
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth [
synonym : {
lying },
{
prevarication }, {
fabrication }]
Prevarication \
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n . [
L .
praevaricatio :
cf .
F .
pr ['
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varication .]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
The august tribunal of the skies ,
where no prevarication shall avail . --
Cowper .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
--
Cowell .
[
1913 Webster ]
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "
prevarication ":
bickering ,
blague ,
boggling ,
bouncer ,
canard ,
captiousness ,
caviling ,
chicane ,
chicanery ,
cock -
and -
bull story ,
coloring ,
confabulation ,
distortion ,
dodging ,
equivocation ,
evasion ,
exaggeration ,
fairy tale ,
false coloring ,
false swearing ,
falsehood ,
falsification ,
falsifying ,
falsity ,
farfetched story ,
farrago ,
fencing ,
fib ,
fiction ,
fish story ,
flam ,
flimflam ,
ghost story ,
hairsplitting ,
half -
truth ,
hedging ,
legal fiction ,
lie ,
little white lie ,
logic -
chopping ,
mendacity ,
miscoloring ,
misconstruction ,
misrepresentation ,
misstatement ,
nit -
picking ,
paltering ,
parrying ,
perjury ,
perversion ,
pettifoggery ,
pious fiction ,
pussyfooting ,
quibbling ,
shifting ,
shuffle ,
shuffling ,
sidestepping ,
slight stretching ,
story ,
straining ,
subterfuge ,
suppressio veri ,
tale ,
tall story ,
tall tale ,
taradiddle ,
tergiversation ,
trichoschistism ,
trumped -
up story ,
untruth ,
weasel words ,
white lie ,
yarn
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