Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PREVARICATION
PREVARICATION
Definitions of PREVARICATION
- A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- Evasion of the truth.
- (nowrare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
- (Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
- (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Number of letters
13
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using PREVARICATION in a Sentence
- Beckford obtained designs from several London and Bath architects, including Goodridge, who was chosen after some prevarication.
- In 2020, the Hebei Provincial Medical Security Bureau issued the "Notice on Preventing Medical Insurance Designated Medical Institutions to Prevaricate and Refuse to Accept Insured Persons", requiring medical security departments at all levels to conscientiously do a good job in ensuring the enjoyment of medical security benefits for insured persons during the end of the year, and resolutely put an end to prevarication and refusal of patients who received medicare.
- His public appearances during the campaign, far from brutally honest, were larded with dissembling, prevarication and demagoguery, empty catchphrases and scripted one-liners.
- Hockett later added prevarication, reflexiveness, and learnability to the list as uniquely human characteristics.
- In March 2002, before the Supreme Court of Justice, Falconi filed a prevarication complaint against Public Prosecutor Mariana Yepez, Prosecutor Guillermo Mosquera, former president of the CSJ Galo Pico, as well as the Prosecuting agent of the Financial Investigations Unit for Public Office, Jorge Montero22 all linked to the Isaias.
- Anna MM Vetticad of Firstpost gave the film a rating of 3/5 and wrote "Love Hostel's pluses and minuses is put in the shade though by its complete lack of prevarication in its representation of India's ongoing war against love".
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