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

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)

Sign it if you like; but sign it quickly; for this night brings all tergiversation to an end.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

What was Howe's explanation of his Lordship's tergiversation?

From The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe by Grant, W. L. (William Lawson)

To think otherwise would be to impute to him a degree of tergiversation and fraudulent deception of which I suppose him to be entirely incapable.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel