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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Never was there less of a flunkey or temporizer.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
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 Frank H. Severance
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 William Charles Henry Wood
