Translations for „prevarication“ in the English » German Dictionary

pre·vari·ca·tion [prɪˌværɪˈkeɪʃən, Am -ˌver-] N no pl form

prevarication

Ausflüchte pl

prevarication

Ausweichmanöver nt meist pl

to be an expert at prevarication

nie um Ausflüchte verlegen sein

prevarication N

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prevarication (deviation from the truth) form

Verdrehung der Tatsachen f

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be an expert at prevarication

nie um Ausflüchte verlegen sein

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Water's work was later found to be critically flawed, based upon prevarications, character assassinations, and the psychological battleground that was the brilliant, narcissistic mind of its author.

en.wikipedia.org

The coyness, prevarication and procrastination of the campaign will have to end.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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

health.spectator.co.uk

This was of course, prevarication.

en.wikipedia.org

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

en.wikipedia.org

If this is what prevarication and weakness looks like, let's have more of it.

theconversation.com

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

www.theage.com.au

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

buffalonews.com

The minister's prevarications all came down to one piece of boilerplate that he clung to again and again.

news.nationalpost.com

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

en.wikipedia.org