temporize
verb (used without object)
to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
temporise
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a variation of
temporize.
Example Sentences
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Display open anger, or temporise until Ella Bedford could be dismissed—ignominiously dismissed—from her situation?
From By Birth a Lady by George Manville Fenn
For these reasons it is a poor policy to temporise, and the only sound policy in extreme cases would be to give up ordinary air-drying in favour of some method of artificial drying.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan
Not yet thoroughly prepared for the struggle, the Emperor found it convenient for a time to temporise, and requested one further debate, which was to prove final between the disputants.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
Do not temporise, but let me know the truth.
From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood
Patricia determined to temporise in order to gain time.
From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins
