tergiversation

We have Washington Post columnist George Will to thank for “tergiversation.”

During the government shutdown, Graham’s tergiversations — sorry, this is the precise word — have amazed.

Given the Tory leader's tergiversations on Europe, how confident can Heseltine really be that Cameron might not end up sliding into a position of advocating withdrawal?

There is a kind of dark comedy to be found in these constant tergiversations, although the subject matter is far from humorous.

In the book he suggests that Mr. McGinniss, who lived and worked next to the defense team, was callow and opportunistic, a writer who traveled “a slippery slope of tergiversation, opportunism and self-interest.”