prevarication

prevarication is a 13-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

13 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 24 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
2. noun. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
3. noun. The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
4. noun. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
5. noun. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

   Synonyms: fabrication, lying

6. noun. intentionally vague or ambiguous

   Synonyms: equivocation, evasiveness

7. noun. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

   Synonyms: lie

Synonyms

fabrication, lying, equivocation, evasiveness, lie

Common word forms

prevarications

Words from these letters

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