prevarication
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The source who alerted The Times to VOA’s decision feared it suggested prevarication by the administration.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
Six years later, Disney+'s "Andor," the backstory of Diego Luna's rebel spy, requires no such prevarication.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2022
Ribeiro is accused of influence peddling, corruption, prevarication, and administrative advocacy – meaning under Brazilian law he could have used his ministerial job to promote private interests.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
In a Facebook post, he added the public deserved "clarity, honesty and contrition" instead of "obfuscation, prevarication and evasion".
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2022
The ad is for “customer service” work, a type of job I tend to avoid because it normally involves a resume, which in turn would involve levels of prevarication I am not prepared to attempt.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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