Prevarication

[pri-,væri'keiʃən]

解釋/意思:

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

(n.) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

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

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

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. Equivocation, cavil, quibble.

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