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prevarication

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Synonyms and Antonyms of prevarication

a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive

she knew that his account was a pure prevarication

Synonyms of prevarication

fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper

Words Related to prevarication

distortion, exaggeration, half-truth

ambiguity, equivocation, obliquity

defamation, libel, slander

bluff, fiction, pose, pretense (or pretence)

humbug, jive, nonsense

canard, fallacy, misconception, myth

falsification, misinformation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement

deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, duplicity, fraudulence

Near Antonyms of prevarication

fact, truism, verity

honesty, truthfulness, veracity

authentication, confirmation, substantiation, validation, verification

Antonyms of prevarication

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