prevarication

n.

支吾；搪塞；说谎；有枝有叶

1. I said it was prevarication, chief engineer for the mission.
   有人搪塞我说，总工程师出差去了。
2. All my attempts to question the authorities on the subject were met by evasion and prevarication.
   我就这个问题质问权威的一切努力均被回避和搪塞。

prevarication
Prevarication in dispute protocols
Prevarication: Reasoning from false assumptions
Tarahumara Prevarication: A Problem in Field Method
Sociolinguistic prevarication about ‘standard English’
Statistical Prevarication: Telling Half-Truths using Statistics
A Plea for Process in Personality Prevarication
Noncompliance and prevarication in life threatening adolescent asthma.
Deception Cues in Political Speeches: Verbal and Non-verbal Traits of Prevarication
Deception Cues in Political Speeches: Verbal and Non-verbal Traits of Prevarication.