noun. The act of prevaricating or deviating, especially from truth, honesty, or plain-dealing; evasion of truth or duty; quibbling or shuffling in words or conduct.

noun. Transgression; violation: as, the prevarication of a law.

noun. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office or commission.

noun. In law: The conduct of an advocate who betrayed the cause of his client, and by collusion assisted his opponent.

noun. The undertaking of a thing falsely, with intent to defeat the object which it was professed to promote.

noun. The wilful concealment or misrepresentation of truth by giving evasive and equivocating evidence.

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

noun. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

noun. undefined

noun. The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.

noun. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

noun. Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.

noun. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.

noun. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

noun. The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.

noun. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

noun. a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

noun. intentionally vague or ambiguous

noun. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

"It seems that CSIS witnesses may have engaged in "prevarication," and that material germane to Harkat's legal defence has been withheld by CSIS for no good reason."

prevaricate  prevaricator  

ambiguity  equivocalness  untruthfulness  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

ambivalence  artifice  chicanery  collusion  disingenuousness  

bickering  blague  boggling  bouncer  canard