prevarication

The act of prevaricating or deviating, especially from truth, honesty, or plain-dealing; evasion of truth or duty; quibbling or shuffling in words or conduct.

Transgression; violation: as, the prevarication of a law.

A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office or commission.

In law: The conduct of an advocate who betrayed the cause of his client, and by collusion assisted his opponent.

The undertaking of a thing falsely, with intent to defeat the object which it was professed to promote.

The wilful concealment or misrepresentation of truth by giving evasive and equivocating evidence.

The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.

A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.

The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.