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
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
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
But, amidst the tergiversation of friends, and the virulence of foes, some still maintained the cause of justice.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
Vincent St. George, disgusted at such gross tergiversation, flies entirely away from the point at issue, and applies those remarks to Julie which all disappointed lovers seem to be bound to utter in such cases.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, by Various
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