Definition for Prevarication:

• The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.

Synonyms for Prevarication:

• n.

  •
  • waffle,
  • hedge,
  • ambiguity,
  • shuffle,
  • clear.
  •
  • true.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • evasiveness.
  •deception (noun)
  • dissimulation,
  • dupery,
  • boondoggles,
  • lie,
  • fraudulence,
  • Double dealing,
  • deceptiveness,
  • hokum,
  • boondoggle,
  • beguilement,
  • cunnings,
  • deceitfulness,
  • disinformation,
  • double-dealing,
  • beguilements,
  • fast one,
  • Defraudation,
  • hypocrisy,
  • dishonesty,
  • distortion,
  • cozenage.
  •dishonesty (noun)
  • deviousness,
  • unscrupulousness,
  • traitorousness,
  • chicanery,
  • insincerity,
  • underhandedness,
  • corruption,
  • craftiness,
  • immorality,
  • crookedness,
  • Improbity,
  • feloniousness,
  • treachery.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • tergiversation,
  • coverup,
  • cover up,
  • shufflings,
  • amphibology,
  • equivocality,
  • fibbing,
  • double meaning,
  • runaround,
  • quibbling routine.
  •equivoque (noun)
  • in-definiteness,
  • un-clearnesses,
  • in-definitenesses,
  • un-clearness,
  • in definiteness,
  • un clearnesses,
  • in definitenesses,
  • stonewallings,
  • un clearness,
  • ambiguous statements.
  •evasion (noun)
  • co pouts,
  • fugivities,
  • pre texts,
  • shunnings,
  • copouts,
  • co-pout,
  • pre-text,
  • fugivitenesses,
  • shirkings,
  • fudgings,
  • fancy footworks,
  • obliquenesses,
  • evadings,
  • pre-texts,
  • equivocatings,
  • dodgings,
  • eschewals,
  • pre text,
  • co-pouts,
  • co pout.
  •fabrication (noun)
  • fabrication.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • perjury,
  • Untruism,
  • falseness,
  • untruth,
  • figment,
  • half truth,
  • fallaciousness,
  • hogwash,
  • fakery,
  • fibbery,
  • feigning,
  • mis-statement,
  • half truths,
  • fable.
  •falsity (noun)
  • in fidelity,
  • un-candidness,
  • un candidnesses,
  • un-reality,
  • in-accuracy,
  • dis ingenuousnesses,
  • dis-ingenuousness,
  • in accuracies,
  • in-fidelity,
  • uncandidnesses,
  • in-accuracies,
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • un faithfulness,
  • dis-ingenuousnesses,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • un reality,
  • in fidelities,
  • un-candidnesses,
  • un-realities,
  • un candidness,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • in-fidelities,
  • un realities,
  • in accuracy,
  • dis ingenuousness.
  •fib (noun)
  • spinaches.
  •fiction (noun)
  • figment imagination,
  • tall stories,
  • storytellings,
  • cliff hanger,
  • work imagination,
  • cliff-hangers,
  • cliff hangers,
  • terminological inexactitudes.
  •prevarication (noun)
  • lying.
  •quibble (noun)
  • Hairsplitter,
  • nit-picker,
  • Quiddities,
  • niggle,
  • hair-splitter,
  • quiddity,
  • quibble,
  • hairsplitters.
  •story (noun)
  • cock and bull story.
  •untruthfulness (noun)
  • un-truthfulness,
  • un truthfulness,
  • un-truthfulnesses,
  • un truthfulnesses.

• Other synonyms:

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  • fish story,
  • pretense,
  • canard,
  • weasel word,
  • cock-and-bull story.
  •
  • misstatement,
  • euphemism,
  • tall tale,
  • misrepresentation.
  •
  • whopper.

Paraphrases for Prevarication:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    equivocation.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    evasion, deception, deceit, graft, cheating.

Antonyms for Prevarication:

• n.

  • deception
    honesty, truth.
  • Other antonyms:
    openness, confirmation, candor, truthfulness, substantiation, fact, frankness, truism, validation, simplicity, verification, guilelessness, verity, sincerity, authentication, veracity.

Prevarication Sentence Examples:

• No, Lady Audley, answered Robert, with a cold sternness that was so strange to him as to transform him into another creature - a pitiless embodiment of justice, a cruel instrument of retribution - no, Lady Audley, he repeated, I have told you that womanly prevarication will not help you; I tell you now that defiance will not serve you.

• My petition is only for a modest prevarication - the cultivation of a reasonable misapprehension to attain a justifiable end.