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PREVARICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The deliberate act of deviating from the truth
Synonyms:
fabrication; lying; prevarication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("prevarication" is a kind of...):
falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prevarication"):
fibbing; paltering (a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear)
Derivation:
prevaricate (be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Intentionally vague or ambiguous
Synonyms:
equivocation; evasiveness; prevarication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("prevarication" is a kind of...):
ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)
untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)
Derivation:
prevaricate (be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
Synonyms:
lie; prevarication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prevarication" is a kind of...):
falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prevarication"):
fib; story; tale; taradiddle; tarradiddle (a trivial lie)
jactitation ((law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law))
walloper; whopper (a gross untruth; a blatant lie)
white lie (an unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite))
Derivation:
prevaricate (be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information)
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