Definitionn. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
Last update: July 15, 2015
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PREVARICATION, a divergence from the truth, equivocation, quibbling, a want of plain-dealing or straightforwardness, especially a deliberate misrepresentation by evasive answers, often used as a less offensive synonym for a lie. [Please select]
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All told, there was nothing so striking about this whole case as the extravagant tendencies towards prevarication. [Please select]
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His habits of prevarication have been kept up steadily, so it is stated. [Please select]
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And I will say this, that here prevarication would avail you little. [Please select]
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Biggs claimed to have got his hurt by a fall from his horse, pride leading him to clothe the facts in prevarication. [Please select]
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He was early accustomed to accuracy in all his statements, and to speak of his faults and omissions without prevarication or disguise. [Please select]
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He saw that the only safety for him lay in boisterous prevarication. [Please select]
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The prevarication had been uttered, and Grace felt as if she had committed a crime and punishment was at hand. [Please select]
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After a great deal of prevarication on all parts but his own, it was declared that he must die under his former sentence, now fifteen years old. [Please select]
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When he took my little wrist in his big hand, I remember with what reluctance I stuck out my quivering tongue, black, as I feared with evidences of prevarication. [Please select]
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