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 Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

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)

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

His tergiversation of mood proves only that there were two Walpoles, not that the Walpole of the romantic enthusiasms was insincere.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert