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prevarication
 
Noun prevarication has 3 senses
  1. lie, prevarication - a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
    --1 is a kind of falsehood, falsity, untruth, false statement
    --1 has particulars:
     fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle; jactitation; whopper, walloper; white lie
    Derived form: verb prevaricate1
  2. equivocation, prevarication, evasiveness - intentionally vague or ambiguous
    --2 is a kind of untruthfulness; ambiguity, equivocalness
    Derived form: verb prevaricate1
  3. lying, prevarication, fabrication - the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
    --3 is a kind of falsification, misrepresentaation
    --3 has particulars: fibbing, paltering
    Derived form: verb prevaricate1
preval prevalage prevalence prevalent prevalenty prevariate prevaricate prevaricating prevarication prevaricator prevasive prevear preveiw preveiwing prevelance prevelant preveledge

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