What is the meaning of Prevarication?

Deviation from what is right or correct.

Evasion of the truth.

A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

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

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

prevarication (deviation from what is right)

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