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

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

So great, however, were the tumults in Rome that he was forced to face about once again, but his tergiversation gave a fatal blow to the cause.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Lincoln would not allow himself to be swerved from the main issue by any tergiversation or personal attacks.

From Abraham Lincoln by Putnam, George Haven

In its long career of tergiversation, never had this noted newspaper been driven into such a position of shame.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne