Prevarication

Noun

1. Evasion of the truth.

   "Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls."

2. Deviation from what is right or correct.
3. A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
4. The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
5. A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.