tergiversation

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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

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

I said, getting quite impatient at his tergiversation.

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

Charles and La Tremoille once more began their course of hesitation, tergiversation, and changes of tactics and residence without doing anything of a public and decisive character.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert

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 Hunt, William