temporizing
Example Sentences
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed a key ally from his new Cabinet, bowing to a ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court after days of temporizing.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2023
The downside of Ms. Merkel’s flexibility and compromise has been a certain amount of flip-flopping and temporizing.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2021
So a man called Bellamy — or is it his doppelgänger, Bollany? — accompanies Swan on the piano and serves as his awkward, temporizing major-domo.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2019
US history accordingly reveals a rich tapestry of legal suits, counter suits, interstate conflicts, water theft, treaties, compacts, agreements, accords, lobbying, bullying and temporizing.
From Nature ● Feb. 21, 2017
"I—am not ready," he found himself temporizing with the maid.
From A Man's Hearth by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
