English-Dutch translations for prevarication

• draaierij
• overtreding
• uitvlucht
  Nee, wat de bedenkers van deze uitvlucht in werkelijkheid willen, is de Commissie ontheffen van haar politieke verantwoordelijkheid. Those who propose such prevarication actually want to allow the Commission to escape all political sanction.

Definition of prevarication

• Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion
• A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office
• A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it

Examples

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

Related words

• prevalence
• prevalent
• prevail
• prevailing
• prevaricate
• prevaricator
• prevalently
• Sprevane
• Sprevani