prevarication in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for prevarication in the English»French Dictionary

prevarication [Brit prɪvarɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n, Am prəˌvɛrəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n] N form

prevarication

tergiversation f

after much prevarication

après bien des tergiversations

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après des mois de faux-fuyants

after months of prevarication

prevarication in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for prevarication in the English»French Dictionary

prevarication N no pl form

prevarication

faux-fuyant m

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tergiversation

prevarication + sing vb

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English

His public appearances during the campaign, far from brutally honest, were larded with dissembling, prevarication and demagoguery, empty catchphrases and scripted one-liners.

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This sort of prevarication is not just misleading, it is dangerous and arguably even criminal.

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There is an endemic prevarication to this machinery, a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture.

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In fact, governments are the true vampires, clandestinely siphoning the productive output of all citizens while pitting them against each other through propaganda and prevarication.

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He lost his position on the council, in manoeuvres and prevarications on oath-taking.

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You might ask whether this prevarication indicates the government's strategy was ill-conceived or was always hot air.

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But outright prevarication or invention, that's kind of hard in this age of the internet, isn't it?

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Or by prevarication, denying the obvious, or blaming everything on the past.

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For that bit of prevarication alone, they should be penalized, not compensated.

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Upon this occasion he was charged with prevarication and unministerial conduct.

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