Usually means: Deliberate avoidance of the truth.
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  1. prevarication: Merriam-Webster
  2. prevarication: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prevarication: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prevarication: Vocabulary.com
  5. Prevarication, prevarication: Wordnik
  6. prevarication: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. prevarication: Wiktionary
  8. Prevarication, prevarication: Dictionary.com
  9. prevarication: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Prevarication: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Prevarication: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. prevarication: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. prevarication: Rhymezone
  14. Prevarication: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. prevarication: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. prevarication: FreeDictionary.org
  17. prevarication: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. prevarication: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Prevarication: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. prevarication: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
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  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. prevarication: Legal dictionary

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  1. prevarication: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prevarication: Medical dictionary

(Note: See prevaricate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prevarication)

noun:  (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
noun:  Evasion of the truth.
noun:  A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
noun:  (Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
noun:  (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

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