This is as in diplomacy to-day, when the interests of one's country allows prevarication, and even in Christian ethics both patriotism and self-preservation, as well as hospitality, permit flat falsehood.

But this presumption ought not to have been allowed to excuse prevarication about testimony.

She hated prevarications and concealments, but if she must conceal something, she should have concealed more.

He called things by their right names; and what others styled prevarication, exaggeration, misstatement or hyperbole, he called a lie.