tergiversate
verb (used without object)
to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
tergiversation
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a word derived from
tergiversate.
Example Sentences
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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
The other charge preferred by Naudé as to the pretended cure of consumption, and the consequent quibbling and tergiversation, is a more valid one.
From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters
To think otherwise would be to impute to him a degree of tergiversation and fraudulent deception of which I suppose him to be entirely incapable.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
He had made Scotland a nation, and nobly redeemed the tergiversation and violence of his earlier career.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt
So great, however, were the tumults in Rome that he was forced to face about once again, but his tergiversation gave a fatal blow to the cause.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
