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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Within the two days' delay which she had asked of him he would begin to realize that she had only meant to temporise, and never had any intention of helping him in his nefarious schemes.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Well," said Hargrave, when they entered the town again, "we must temporise with our present difficulties.
From Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel by Emma Newby
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
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
Slyne, reading all the old man's thoughts, could see that he had decided to temporise.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
