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

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

He is very anxious that his political friends should not desist from urging the question—an act of tergiversation and unconsistency which, he thinks, would ruin them in the estimation of the public.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

Many are the causes which may dissolve the bonds of faithless “conjurations;” and it is not always he who abandons a party who is to be criminated by political tergiversation.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

The other charge preferred by Naudé as to the pretended cure of consumption, and the consequent quibbling and tergiversation, is a more valid one.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)