Mendacity vs Prevarication - What's the difference?
mendacity | prevarication |
The fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
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A lie, deceit or falsehood.
Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
* Cowper
* 2012 , The Economist, Oct 6th 2012,
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
(legal, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
As nouns the difference between mendacity and prevarication
is that mendacity is the fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty while prevarication is deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.mendacity
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(mendacities)prevarication
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(en noun)- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- (Cowell)
