prevarication

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

prevarications

1.
(countable, uncountable)Evasion of the truth.
Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
Đồng nghĩa: deceit, evasiveness
2.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)(archaic, now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
Đồng nghĩa: transgression, perversion
3.
(countable, uncountable)A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
4.
(Ancient Rome, countable, historical, uncountable)(Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
5.
(countable, uncountable)(law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

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Đồng nghĩa

deceitevasivenesstransgression perversion

Cùng gốc / liên quan

prevaricate prevaricator lie equivocate

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Nguồn gốc từ

Latin praevāricātiō, from praevāricor (to walk crookedly; go astray; transgress) + -tās. The virtually obsolete sense of deviation or transgression may have been influenced by an earlier stage of borrowing via Middle English prevaricacioun, prevaricacion (deviation from the law; transgression) from prevaricaciun (transgression, violation of correct conduct).