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

Just in the same way, the violent and prolonged debates, the intrigue, the tergiversation, which attended the acceptance of the famous Bull Unigenitus, taught shrewd observers how it is that religions establish themselves.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John

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

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

His tergiversation of mood proves only that there were two Walpoles, not that the Walpole of the romantic enthusiasms was insincere.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert