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
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
In his peroration the speaker commented upon Toombs’s tergiversation with such effective severity it elicited wild applause from the men of his side.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Just in the same way, the violent and prolonged debates, the intrigue, the tergiversation, which attended the acceptance of the famous Bull Unigenitus, taught shrewd observers how it is that religions establish themselves.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
