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

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)

But, amidst the tergiversation of friends, and the virulence of foes, some still maintained the cause of justice.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

The author well observes that frivolity and ignorance, rather than deliberate guilt, are the causes of political error and tergiversation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various

Charles and La Tremoille once more began their course of hesitation, tergiversation, and changes of tactics and residence without doing anything of a public and decisive character.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert