Meaning & use
prevarication
The act of speaking evasively or misleadingly in order to avoid stating the truth.
See it in a sentence
The senator's prevarication only made reporters more suspicious about what he was hiding.
After months of prevarication, the company finally admitted the product was unsafe.
A note on using this word
Prevarication implies deliberately dodging the truth without outright lying, which distinguishes it from a direct falsehood.
Words with a similar meaning
evasionequivocation
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Words with an opposite meaning
honesty
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