prévarication — meaning in English
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English meaning
- dereliction noun A failure to do what duty requires; neglect of responsibility.
- prevarication noun Evasion of the truth.
Senses
prévarication is used for these senses in English:
- dereliction Willful neglect of one's duty.
- maladministration (chiefly, government, uncountable) Faulty, improper, or inefficient administration or management, especially by a government body; (countable) an instance of this. [from 17th c.]
- prevarication (archaic, now, _, rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
dereliction — full definition
- noun A failure to do what duty requires; neglect of responsibility.
- noun The state of being abandoned and neglected.
prevarication — full definition
- noun Evasion of the truth.
- noun Deviation from what is right or correct.
- noun A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
- noun The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.