prevarications

plural of prevarication

(countable, uncountable) Evasion of the truth.
(archaic, countable, uncountable) Deviation from what is right or correct.
(countable, uncountable) A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
(Ancient-Rome, countable, historical, uncountable) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(countable, uncountable) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.