tergiversate
verb (used without object)
to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
tergiversator
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a word derived from
tergiversate.
Example Sentences
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But enough of this miserable tergiversator, who ought indeed either to have been of more truth, or less trusted by his country.*
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
