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

Many are the causes which may dissolve the bonds of faithless “conjurations;” and it is not always he who abandons a party who is to be criminated by political tergiversation.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

But, amidst the tergiversation of friends, and the virulence of foes, some still maintained the cause of justice.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

The pension of three hundred a year obtained for him of the crown by his influential friends was not the reward of baseness or of political tergiversation.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

He is very anxious that his political friends should not desist from urging the question—an act of tergiversation and unconsistency which, he thinks, would ruin them in the estimation of the public.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley