Definition of prevarication

• n. - The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
• n. - A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
• n. - The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
• n. - A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.