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Meanings of prevarication in English

Portuguese
história
Catalan
història
Spanish
historia

A false statement made with the intention to deceive.

        história
        Portuguese
        mentira
        Catalan
        prevariació
        Spanish
        evasivo

        Intentionally vague or ambiguous.

              mentira
              Portuguese
              mentira
              Catalan
              butllofa
              Spanish
              mentira

              The deliberate act of deviating from the truth.

                    mentira
                    Usage of prevarication in English
                    1
                    That is not true; and this is not the place for prevarication.
                    The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
                    2
                    Anything less will feed into the sterile politics of drift and prevarication.
                    The Irish Times
                    3
                    But his grand, simple, truthful spirit perceived no prevarication in her words.
                    For Woman's Love
                    4
                    You have simply discovered that I have not a leaning toward prevarication.
                    A Day of Fate
                    5
                    And I will say this, that here prevarication would avail you little.
                    Captain Blood
                    6
                    I wonder, Ralph that you can give way to such mean-spirited prevarication.
                    The Gorilla Hunters
                    7
                    This is no place wherein leasing availeth nor may prevarication be therein.'
                    Tales from the Arabic — Volume 01
                    8
                    Some experts also blame bureaucratic prevarication over rules for safety margins.
                    Reuters
                    9
                    There was no longer any room for prevarication in Ireland or Irish America.
                    The Irish Times
                    10
                    The original subheading used the word prevarication where indecisiveness was meant.
                    The Guardian
                    11
                    She had the cruel courage to conceal the truth by prevarication.
                    Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
                    12
                    In these modern times, they can see nothing but prevarication and ruin .
                    The Irish Times
                    13
                    He was assuming the man was English: his prevarication suggested it.
                    Complete Books of Blood
                    14
                    There'd be no room for prevarication, no chance to back out.
                    Heart of stone
                    15
                    Talen tried to detect prevarication in Da's answer, but found none.
                    Servant of a dark god
                    16
                    The question was too precisely put to allow of any prevarication.
                    The Clique of Gold
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                    Prevarication through the time
                    Prevarication across language varieties
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