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(now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct. / Evasion of the truth. / A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

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prevarication

Source Word

prevarication

IPA(Pronunciation)

Noun

archaic countable uncountable Ancient-Rome historical

Japanese Meaning

正しいこと、または正確なことから逸脱する行為 / 真実を回避する行為 / 公務執行上における秘密裏の不正行為

The committee condemned his prevarication as a dangerous deviation from the ethical standards they had sworn to uphold.

委員会は、彼の正しいことからの逸脱を、彼らが誓って守るべき倫理基準に対する重大な侵害だとして非難した。

Sense（1）

(now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.

Sense（2）

Evasion of the truth.

Sense（3）

A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

Sense（4）

Sense（5）

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

If it shall appeare, that they haue forfeited their Faith, or wronged their Client by preuarication.

prevarications

（ plural ）