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.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMen who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication. Elbert Hubbard
Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication. Edmund Burke
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. Goldwin Smith
The mediators' approach of negotiating around a blind draft may have expedited the convening of the talks, by minimising pre-talks consultations and the opportunities for prevarication that accompany them, but in this case the gamble did not pay off. Source: Internet
The YSP, by a mixture of prevarication and procrastination, made repeated attempts to provoke the GPC into rejecting the accord, thereby buying more time for its own military and diplomatic preparations. Source: Internet
Money laundering, abuse of power, prevarication and illicit enrichment amounting to millions of dollars — Bautista of the Dominican Republic has been accused of them all,” the campaign’s website says. Source: Internet