All prevarication synonyms

noun prevarication

• evasion — The action of evading something.
• quiddity — the quality that makes a thing what it is; the essential nature of a thing.
• equivoque — An expression capable of having more than one meaning; a pun.
• fudging — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• evasiveness — The quality of being evasive.
• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• defraudation — (obsolete) The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud.
• coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
• falsehood — a false statement; lie. Synonyms: fabrication, prevarication, falsification, canard, invention, fiction, story.
• disinformation — false information, as about a country's military strength or plans, publicly announced or planted in the news media, especially of other countries.
• copout — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
• mendacity — the quality of being mendacious; untruthfulness; tendency to lie.
• cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
• misinformation — to give false or misleading information to.
• chestnut — A chestnut or chestnut tree is a tall tree with broad leaves.
• falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
• hedging — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• fallaciousness — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
• elusion — The act of eluding.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
• clothesline — A clothesline is a thin rope on which you hang washing so that it can dry.
• invention — the act of inventing.
• dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
• falsity — the quality or condition of being false; incorrectness; untruthfulness; treachery.
• hokum — out-and-out nonsense; bunkum.
• dupery — an act, practice, or instance of duping.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• fakery — the practice or result of faking.
• fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
• fibbery — The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
• fibbing — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• cock and bull story — an absurd, improbable story presented as the truth: Don't ask him about his ancestry unless you want to hear a cock-and-bull story.
• eschewal — The act of eschewing.
• in-accuracy — something inaccurate; error.
• boondoggle — People sometimes refer to an official organization or activity as a boondoggle when they think it wastes a lot of time and money and does not achieve much.
• inveracity — untruthfulness; mendacity.
• quibble — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
• cozenage — the practice of cozening.
• deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
• equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
• obliqueness — The characteristic of being oblique.
• fast one — a shrewd action, especially when unscrupulous or dishonest; an unfair trick, deceitful practice, dishonest dealing, etc.: He pulled a fast one on me by paying me with a worthless check.