Synonyms of prevarication

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lie
• tale
• story
• untruth
• fabrication
• mendacity
• falsehood
• fairy tale
• fable
• falsity
• distortion
• ambiguity
• fib
• exaggeration
• whopper
• equivocation
• taradiddle
• fiction
• defamation
• deceit
• slander
• fraudulence
• perjury
• nonsense
• libel
• misrepresentation
• half-truth
• obliquity
• bluff
• duplicity
• dishonesty
• misinformation
• falsification
• myth
• pose
• misstatement
• pretense
• fallacy
• misconception
• canard
• humbug
• deceitfulness
• jive
• misreport

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• truth
• fact
• honesty
• truthfulness
• confirmation
• veracity
• truism
• verification
• validation
• verity
• authentication
• substantiation

Example Sentences

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