The phrase "a prevarication" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a lie or a statement that is deliberately misleading or evasive.
Example: "His response was nothing more than a prevarication, designed to avoid answering the question directly."
Alternatives: "a falsehood" or "a fabrication."
That first clause is a prevarication, and the second I hope is untrue.
It transformed a prevarication into the truth.
Advocating lower corporate tax rates to help corporations compete globally or to lower the deficit is a prevarication of right-wing proportions.
But, more important, how can we honor and mourn these troops and all the fallen heroes before them if we don't, as Americans, resolve that our nation will never again send our men and women into harm's way in distant lands on a whim, on bombast, on a prevarication.
In fact, that is the only Iranian "interference" that will be demonstrable in what is likely to be a prevarication-fest, duly lapped up by obsequious Congress-critters and the Boeing-ADM-Searle "press".
And yet both campaigns seemed to live a life beyond consequence, correctly discerning that it was worth getting a scolding from the journalistic church ladies if a stretch or an elide or an outright prevarication did damage to the opposition.
Instead, in a classic prevarication, they decided to adjust the mechanisms once applicants come close to joining.Ode to modified joyBut at least those applicants can, by the end of the year, start negotiating in earnest.
This is man who has always needed to show that he is in fact in charge and while he has a reputation for prevarication, when a decision does come it is rarely nuanced or innovative.
When India's prime minister finally gave a reply, it was all prevarication, no substance.
The letter is a masterpiece of equivocation and prevarication, leaving a false impression without telling an outright lie.
He liked unfolding a melody in chords, suspending the thematic momentum before a solo with a gleeful, single-line prevarication, then sweeping into a series of choruses full of glossy, tumbling arpeggios, his most explicit references to the inspiration of Tatum.
