Associations to the word «Prevarication»

Noun

Adjective

Wiktionary

PREVARICATION, noun. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.

PREVARICATION, noun. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.

PREVARICATION, noun. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

PREVARICATION, noun. (legal) (historical) (Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.

PREVARICATION, noun. (legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Dictionary definition

PREVARICATION, noun. A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.

PREVARICATION, noun. Intentionally vague or ambiguous.

PREVARICATION, noun. The deliberate act of deviating from the truth.

Wise words

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Martin Luther King Jr.