prevarication

[ UK /pɹɪvˌæɹɪkˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /pɹəˌvɛɹəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
  2. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
  3. intentionally vague or ambiguous
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How To Use prevarication In A Sentence

  • Hot tears of indignation stood in her eyes when she realized that all the prevarication might be, for them, a way of haggling and trading. COUP D'ETAT
  • After some Ministry prevarication Tabakov eventually arrived, but only after the cast had assembled and with one day of rehearsal lost.
  • That's the kind of diabolic prevarication I like to see my followers use to attack my enemies.) "No doubt some far-left pundits have said far worse things than Ann Coulter will ever say and the mainstream media often celebrates them. The Devil's Diary: O'Reilly and liberal "bomb-throwers"
  • On this account, their complementarianism is not an excuse for prevarication. Ken Schenck on The Chicago Declaration on Biblical Inerrancy
  • Their actions leave open the further question: when does out-and-out prevarication shade off into self-deception and denial?
  • Even so, he has continued his policy of deception and prevarication.
  • But several months after the ruling, two tiny far-right groups sued Judge Garzón for 'prevarication' -- knowingly overstepping his authority -- in violating the amnesty law. Dorian de Wind: Judge Garzón's Prosecution: Spain's Version of "Lo Pasado, Pasado Está"
  • But as the prophet Habakkuk is express to the contrary, chap.iii. 11, and their own Sirachides, cap. xlv., xlvi., so it is no small prevarication in some Christians to give countenance unto such a putid fiction. Pneumatologia
  • You see, friends, this is the kind of prevarication I fear from an Obama administration. China, finally « BuzzMachine
  • We do not care about the silly prevarications of politicians, whether it be about the democratic system or weapons of mass destruction.
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