| 单词 | prevarication |
| 释义 | prevarication (once / 13633 pages) n Prevarication is when someone tells a lie, especially in a sneaky way. A boy might use prevarication to avoid telling the whole truth about how the kitchen window got broken. While the noun prevarication is mostly just a fancy way to say "lie," it can also mean skirting around the truth, being vague about the truth, or even delaying giving someone an answer, especially to avoid telling them the whole truth. In the 16th century, the word was used to mean "going astray," or "stepping out of line." It comes from the Latin root word praevaricari, which literally translates as "walk crookedly." WORD FAMILYprevarication: prevarications+/prevaricate: prevaricated, prevaricates, prevaricating, prevarication, prevaricator/prevaricator: prevaricators USAGE EXAMPLES"We don't expect from them today anything more than prevarication and procrastination," Hadi was quoted as saying after meeting the American and British ambassadors. BBC(Oct 19, 2016) Trump is a role model for antipathy, envy, calumny, mendacity, prevarication, stupidity in the face of challenge, not being prepared for his goal, and bullying. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) When it comes to messaging, however, the campaign and its principal operate with crafty prevarication. Wall Street Journal(Aug 24, 2016) 1n the deliberate act of deviating from the truth Syn|Hypo|Hyper fabrication, lying fibbing, paltering a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear falsification, misrepresentation a willful perversion of facts 2n a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth Syn|Hypo|Hyper lie fib, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle a trivial lie jactitation(law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law) walloper, whoppera gross untruth; a blatant lie white liean unimportant lie (especially one told to be tactful or polite) cock-and-bull story, fairy story, fairy tale, fairytale, song and dancean interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse falsehood, falsity, untruth a false statement 3n intentional vagueness or ambiguity Syn|Hyper equivocation, evasiveness ambiguity, equivocalness unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning untruthfulnessthe quality of being untruthful |
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