Word Meanings - PREVARICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail. Cowper. 2. A secret abuse in

Additional info about word: PREVARICATION

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. The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail. Cowper. 2. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office. The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it. Cowell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREVARICATION)

• Chicanery
• Artifice
• subtlety
• sophistry
• subterfuge
• prevarication
• shift
• trickery
• dodge
• quibble
• mystification
• pettifogging
• underhandedness
• Evasion
• Prevarication
• shuffle
• fencing
• sheet
• equivocation
• Mendacity
• Falsehood
• lying
• untruthfulness
• deception
• duplicity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PREVARICATION)

• Reason
• argue
• enunciate
• investigate
• discuss
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

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