English-Spanish translations for prevarication

• prevaricación
  En cambio, hemos encontrado medias verdades, prevaricación y evasivas. Instead, we have seen half-truths, prevarication and evasion.
  Basta ya de evaluaciones de impacto, de prevaricación y de egoísmo nacional. ¡Hagan algo, por Dios! No more impact assessments, no more prevarication, no more national egoism: for goodness' sake act!
  En mi opinión, la prevaricación y la obstrucción no brindan dignidad alguna al papel y el puesto del Presidente checo. In my opinion, prevarication and obstruction bring no dignity to the role and position of the Czech President.

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