PREVARICATION Synonyms: 58 Similar and Opposite Words

prevarication

noun

as in lie

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive she knew that his account was a pure prevarication

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Recent Examples of prevarication This week, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave a master class in obfuscation, prevarication, and pettiness. —

John Ficarra, Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025 There was no picture, there was no drawing, there has been so many lies, so much prevarication, so much cover up. —

John Parkinson, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025

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Noun

There, a mad, out-of-control Mary lives on as tenaciously as George Washington’s inability to tell a lie.

— Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
As their lies unravel, Nora and Jack try to outsmart one another.

— Brent Lang, Variety, 18 May 2026