Words and phrases that have a meaning related to prevarication: (126 results)
Often used in the same context:
obfuscation, dissembling, pusillanimity, vacillation, doublespeak, mendacity, ineffectuality, dithering, duplicity, intransigence, insincerity, sophistry, disingenuousness, incompetence, dishonesty, obstinacy, equivocation, incoherence, obduracy, timidity, spinelessness, deceit, perfidy, inaction, dissimulation, mystification, cravenness, circumlocution, procrastination, prolixity, opportunism, cowardice, underhandedness, falsehood, deception, pedantry, indecision, inaptitude, irresolution, evasions, bafflegab, posturing, illogic, obtuseness, appeasement, revisionism, doublethink, ineptitude, dilettantism, tetchiness, hypocrisy, inanity, evasiveness, untrustworthiness, cynicism, pompousness, arrogance, flummery, humbug, untruth, farrago, pussyfooting, demagoguery, weasel words, servility, sycophancy, corruptness, obstructionism, inarticulateness, facetiousness, cavilling, ignorance, naivety, irrationality, stupidity, speciousness, foolishness, deviousness, nefariousness, hubris, gutlessness, churlishness, tactlessness, recrimination, anglophobia, dubiousness, knavery, incoherency, superciliousness, shamelessness, daftness, acquiescence, unscrupulousness, indecisiveness, intransigency, dilatoriness, philistinism, venality, hairsplitting, bluster, francophobia, cajolery, evasion, misrepresentation, unfairness, perjury, pretense, discourtesy, falsehoods, fraud
More specific:
fib, fibbing, jactitation, paltering, story, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, whopper
More general:
false statement, falsification, falsity, untruthfulness
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Also try:fabrication, lie, lying
— Adjectives for prevarication: such, much, gross, further, little, deliberate, mere, wilful, more, outright, least, more...
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