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Prevarication vs Shuffling - What's the difference?

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Prevarication is a related term of shuffling.


As nouns the difference between prevarication and shuffling

is that prevarication is maladministration while shuffling is the act or motion of one who shuffles.

As a verb shuffling is

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As an adjective shuffling is

moving with a dragging, scraping step.

prevarication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
  • Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
    • Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
  • * Cowper
    • The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
  • * 2012 , The Economist, Oct 6th 2012, Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano
    • Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
  • A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
  • (legal, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
  • (legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
    • (Cowell)
    (Webster 1913)

    Related terms

    * prevaricate * prevaricator

    shuffling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or motion of one who shuffles.
  • The noise created by something moving about.
  • * 2011 , John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin
    • He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings , comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room
  • trickery
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
    • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings , and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
  • * Shakespeare
    • A shuffling nag.
  • evasive
  • * T. Burnet
    • a shuffling excuse