temporize
verb (used without object)
to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
temporizer
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a word derived from
temporize.
Example Sentences
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So Howe, pro-American in politics and temporizer in the field, manoeuvred round his own headquarters at New York until October, when he sailed south to Philadelphia.
From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry
Marsh does not complain of any severity from him, but calls him an old granny, a glutton and a temporizer in his promises to convicts.
From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.
Never was there less of a flunkey or temporizer.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
