prevarication
pruh ve ruh kay shuhn
- n a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- n intentionally vague or ambiguous
- n the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
- The fine art of political prevarication is nothing less than ordinary, everyday lying writ large.
- After seven long months, what we got was four minutes of petulance and prevarication.
- The by-product of the difference between the two systems is prevarication.