noun a secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
2. prevarication ·noun the collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
3. prevarication ·noun a false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
4. prevarication ·noun the act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.