Thesaurus / tergiversation
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synonyms for tergiversation
- euphemism
- shuffle
- duplicity
- delusion
- distortion
- casuistry
- hedge
- spuriousness
- lie
- coloring
- deception
- evasion
- fib
- ambiguity
- speciousness
- prevarication
- song
- doubtfulness
- deceit
- line
- misrepresentation
- waffle
- cover-up
- cover
- stall
- sophistry
- con
- lying
- fallacy
- cop out
- double entendre
- double talk
- equivocality
- equivoque
- run-around
- song and dance
- stonewall
- weasel word
- deceptiveness
- amphibology
- fibbing
- dissimulation
- hedging
- shuffling
- double meaning
- quibbling routine
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antonyms for tergiversation
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- openness
- truth
- surety
- fact
- certainty
- trustworthiness
- uprightness
- truthfulness
- frankness
- clarity
- reality
- honesty
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But, amidst the tergiversation of friends, and the virulence of foes, some still maintained the cause of justice.
DISCIPLINEMARY BRUNTONSaying this in a tone which admitted of no tergiversation, the Black Bear raised his knife.
THE TIGER-SLAYERGUSTAVE AIMARDI am not in any way aware of having wounded my child except where your tergiversation opened her to my just reproach.
PATHS OF JUDGEMENTANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICKFancy was his tyrant, and under its rule he had no time to reason and to see the miserable aspect of his political tergiversation.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 14, SLICE 8VARIOUSSuch tergiversation in times of civil discord was nothing new.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYLincoln would not allow himself to be swerved from the main issue by any tergiversation or personal attacks.
ABRAHAM LINCOLNGEORGE HAVEN PUTNAMHe had made Scotland a nation, and nobly redeemed the tergiversation and violence of his earlier career.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLANDT.F. TOUTBut, as Philo says, there is little chance of tergiversation.
PROOFS OF A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ALL THE RELIGIONS AND GOVERNMENTS OF EUROPEJOHN ROBISONBut their tergiversation had cost them a thousand dollars a-piece.
THE WHITE SCALPERGUSTAVE AIMARDHis political attitude exhibited "daily tergiversation," the result of palace intrigues.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTWORDS RELATED TO TERGIVERSATION
- abrogation
- absconding
- apostasy
- avoidance
- backsliding
- betrayal
- castoff
- defecting
- departing
- departure
- derelict
- dereliction
- disaffection
- disavowal
- disavowing
- divorce
- elusion
- escape
- evasion
- falling away
- falseness
- flight
- forsaking
- going back on
- leaving
- perfidy
- recreancy
- rejection
- relinquishment
- renunciation
- repudiation
- resignation
- retirement
- retreat
- running out on
- secession
- tergiversation
- treachery
- truancy
- withdrawal
- ambiguity
- amphibology
- casuistry
- coloring
- con
- cop out
- cover
- cover-up
- deceit
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- dissimulation
- distortion
- double entendre
- double meaning
- double talk
- doubtfulness
- duplicity
- equivocality
- evasion
- fallacy
- fib
- fibbing
- hedging
- lie
- line
- lying
- misrepresentation
- prevarication
- quibbling routine
- run-around
- shuffling
- song
- song and dance
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stall
- stonewall
- tergiversation
- waffle
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.