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What does prevarication mean?

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Noun
  1. (now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  2. Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
  3. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  4. (Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
  5. (law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
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The BBMP's constant prevarication on the fate of captured stray dogs understandably led to questions about what was being done to them.
I met people who had endured 12 hours of mis-information and prevarication before they boarded a plane.
But in 1989, after criminal prevarication which caused human loss on both sides of the Shat-el-arab, Khomeiny finally accepted a cease-fire.
Now we are fed big pills of outright lies, prevarication, and deception.
It is the first time I have read as incisive an analysis from an official source, without waffle or prevarication.
Evidence of some criteria being met can be seen, i.e., they show some semanticity, prevarication, arbitrariness, and combining ability.

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