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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Carrie, nervous and overwrought as she was, decided to temporise.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
It was the time of the Emperor to temporise; the time had not come to strike; Germany was not rich enough.
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Maurice Francis Egan
The professor liked to have his jokes remembered; but still he seemed inclined to temporise.
From A Bookful of Girls by Anna Fuller
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
Slyne, reading all the old man's thoughts, could see that he had decided to temporise.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
