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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It was drawing towards night on the 10th, when this luckless pair and a chief of the name of Tuiatafu, set out for the German consulate, still minded to temporise.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Patricia determined to temporise in order to gain time.
From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins
To dally with minor ailments was as much beneath him as to temporise with modern medicine.
From The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Hénon and his council, as the month before, would have liked to temporise; while Valentin and Crouzat dreamt of Espivent.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
