Definitions for prevarication

prevarication pre·var·i·ca·tion

Spelling: [pri-var-i-key-shuh n]
IPA: /prɪˌvær ɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Prevarication is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 1505 anagrams from letters in prevarication (aaceiinoprrtv).

Definitions for prevarication

noun

  1. the act of prevaricating, or lying:
  2. a false or deliberate misstatement; lie:

Examples for prevarication

I never knew another man so fertile in the art of prevarication.

The question was too precisely put to allow of any prevarication.

He had so ingenious a manner of prevarication that he actually believed his own tales.

Mind, I must have truthful and straightforward answers—no prevarication.'

There was no prevarication or difficulty with the only witness examined.

They can perform prodigies of prevarication and get away with them.

Calendar, he believed, was capable of prevarication, polite and impolite.

I scorn a lie—my prayer is to leave every prevarication behind.

Mrs. Danner, filled with consternation, sought refuge in prevarication.

His arm tightened over her hand, but he made no attempt at prevarication.

Word Value for prevarication
Scrable

20

Words with friends

24

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