prevarication

/prɪˌværɪˈkeɪʃən/
noun
  1. 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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