prevarication
/prɪˌværɪˈkeɪʃən/
noun
- The act of avoiding the truth by being deliberately vague or misleading; a lie or evasion.
- His speech was full of prevarication, never giving a clear answer.
- The journalist exposed the prevarication in the company's official statement.
- The witness's prevarication made it hard for the jury to know what really happened.
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