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Prevarication vs Guibbling - What's the difference?

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Prevarication is a related term of guibbling.

prevarication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  • Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
    • Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
  • * Cowper
    • The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, Oct 6th 2012, 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.
  • 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.
    • (Cowell)
    (Webster 1913)

    Related terms

    * prevaricate * prevaricator

    guibbling

    Not English

    Guibbling has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'guibbling':

    gavelling, gobbling, gabbling, gaffling, gaveling