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
I said, getting quite impatient at his tergiversation.
From She and I, Volume 1 by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
Stephens, Alexander H., his character, 29; his views concerning military matters, ib.; his tergiversation, ib.; neglect of Jefferson Davis, 30.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
This tergiversation in public men forms the subject of one of HB’s happiest inspirations.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt
Shimo is to answer the questions—without tergiversation or lying.
From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by James S. (James Seguin) De Benneville
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