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— English words —

• prevarication n. (Now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct.
• prevarication n. Evasion of the truth.
• prevarication n. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
• prevarication n. (Ancient Rome, law, historical) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of…
• prevarication n. (Law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Middle french
  • prevarication n. Prevarication (deviation from what is right).

— English words, defined in German —

• prevarication S. Lüge, Ausflucht.
• prevarication S. Irrelevanz.
• prevarication S. Ausweichmanöver.

— In French —

• prévarication n.f. (Droit) Grave manquement d’un fonctionnaire, d’un homme…
• prévarication n.f. (Littéraire) Acte de mauvaise foi commis dans une gestion.

38 English words from 6 English definitions

abuse Ancient Ancient␣Rome collusion correct deceitful defeating defendant destroying deviation Evasion exercise false for from historical informer is␣right law Now of␣a of␣an office Prevarication public public␣office purpose rare right Rome secret seeming the thing truth undertake what with

5 English words from 5 foreign definitions

commis dans Droit gestion Grave

13 foreign words from 5 foreign definitions

Acte Ausflucht Ausweichmanöver foi fonctionnaire homme Irrelevanz Littéraire Lüge manquement mauvaise mauvaise␣foi une

One suffix (New word found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

prevarications

44 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Ari ARI Arica -ation cat Cat CAT CATI catio cation eva Eva EVA eva' evar ICA -ica -ication ion Ion -ion pre pre- prev rev Rev rev. Rev. Ric RIC -ric tio Tio tion -tion var Var VaR VAR var. vari vari- varic- varication

34 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ACI ACIR Acira ave 'ave ave. Ave. aver CIR cir. Cir. -cir- Cira CIRA ERP Ira IRA ita ITA NOI noit OIt OIT Oita Ōita rav rave Rave raver Raver tac TAC ver ver.

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

prevarications

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