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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for prevarication

Noun

Having to fight and co-exist with those hell-bent on spewing lies and attention-grabbing hyperbole only clouds up the room, ruins the mood and takes away minutes from those who have been tackling real problems that truly need their government’s help.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
Yesteryear is narrated by a woman named Natalie Heller Mills, a Ballerina Farm facsimile who is pregnant with her sixth child at the beginning of the novel, and whose pixel-perfect online life as @YesteryearRanch is essentially all a lie.

— Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026