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

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

Raging with indignation at what he conceived to be the tergiversation of his leader and the treachery to his hero, Bland-Burges once again forced himself upon the attention of the House.

From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin

I said, getting quite impatient at his tergiversation.

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

Between the two strong natures there was no subterfuge, no suggestion of polite evasions, of tergiversation, only the plea of truth to truth.

From Within the Law by Veiller, Bayard