Dictionary Entry
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
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- 1noun
The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
- 2noun
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- 3noun
The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
- 4noun
A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
- 5noun
the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
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- 6noun
intentionally vague or ambiguous
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- 7noun
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
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