tergiversation
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Another has been the behavior of its distinguished columnists-the lamentation of Mark Sullivan, the oscillation of Dorothy Thompson, the tergiversation of Walter Lippmann.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, amidst the tergiversation of friends, and the virulence of foes, some still maintained the cause of justice.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
The author well observes that frivolity and ignorance, rather than deliberate guilt, are the causes of political error and tergiversation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various
Raging with indignation at what he conceived to be the tergiversation of his leader and the treachery to his hero, Bland-Burges once again forced himself upon the attention of the House.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
It was not true, though it made Ferdinand very cordial for a time, and soon the relations between England and Spain resumed their usual course of smooth-tongued distrust and tergiversation.
From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
