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
He had made Scotland a nation, and nobly redeemed the tergiversation and violence of his earlier career.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
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 Isaac Disraeli
Froude's specific charge of rapid tergiversation is disproved by dates.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
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 R. Brimley Johnson
