prevarication

n. 支吾, 搪塞 [法] 推诿, 支吾其词, 搪塞

发音

其它 /pɹɪˌvæɹ.ɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

词形变化

prevarications 复数 prevarications

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Evasion of the truth.

    可数 不可数

    Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.

  2. 2.

    Deviation from what is right or correct.

    古体 可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

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  4. 4.

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

    可数 历史 不可数 法律
  5. 5.

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

    可数 不可数 法律

词汇关系

名词

同义词 5

lie lying fabrication equivocation evasiveness

上位词 8

falsehood ambiguity falsification falsity equivocalness misrepresentation untruth untruthfulness

下位词 10

story tale fib whopper fibbing white lie jactitation paltering taradiddle tarradiddle

词源

Borrowed from Latin praevāricātiō (“collusion with an opponent; duplicity, deceit; violation of duty, transgression”, literally “stepping out of line”), from praevāricor (“to walk crookedly; go astray; transgress”) + -tās. The virtually obsolete sense of deviation or transgression may have been influenced by an earlier stage of borrowing via Middle English prevaricacioun, prevaricacion (“deviation from the law; transgression”) from Anglo-Norman prevaricaciun (“transgression, violation of correct conduct”).

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