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Another has been the behavior of its distinguished columnists-the lamentation of Mark Sullivan, the oscillation of Dorothy Thompson, the tergiversation of Walter Lippmann.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our vulgar idea of a party is a week or fortnight of previous discomfort and chaotic tergiversation, and the mistress of it all distracted and worn out with endless cares.

From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The author well observes that frivolity and ignorance, rather than deliberate guilt, are the causes of political error and tergiversation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various

This tergiversation in public men forms the subject of one of HB’s happiest inspirations.

From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham

In his peroration the speaker commented upon Toombs’s tergiversation with such effective severity it elicited wild applause from the men of his side.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin