tergiversation

Example Sentences

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The legends are many, but one theme that frequently emerges shows her, disgusted with the tergiversations of self-serving humans, dancing with such fury that the whole earth shakes and mountains topple into the sea.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2010

Nevertheless, for all his tergiversations, Nehru had taken, for Nehru, his own giant step.

From Time Magazine Archive

In any case, I am led to believe that it was Lamartine's tergiversations and his semi-connivance with the enemy that saved us, while it ruined him.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

The popular sentiment, on which both he and Charles had reckoned to promote an insurrectionary movement, confused by the tergiversations and the ambiguous actions of the hetman, had quite gone astray and lost all consistency.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by Rudd, John

His misgivings and tergiversations had so much delayed him by the way, that it was past midnight, and the train was already due.

From The Nebuly Coat by Falkner, John Meade