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 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

Our vulgar idea of a party is a week or fortnight of previous discomfort and chaotic tergiversation, and the mistress of it all distracted and worn out with endless cares.

From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Stephens, Alexander H., his character, 29; his views concerning military matters, ib.; his tergiversation, ib.; neglect of Jefferson Davis, 30.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard