Prevaricate vs Chicanery - What's the difference?
prevaricate | chicanery |
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).
To shift or turn from direct speech or behaviour; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.
(legal) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.
(legal, UK) To undertake something falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
Deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.
(countable, legal) A slick performance by a lawyer.
As a verb prevaricate
is to deviate, transgress; to go astray (from).As a noun chicanery is
deception by use of trickery, quibbling, or subterfuge.prevaricate
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* (archaic)Verb
(prevaricat)- The people saw the politician prevaricate every day.
