prevarication

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Evasion of the truth.
2. 2
   Deviation from what is right or correct.
3. 3
   A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
4. 4
   The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
5. 5
   A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.