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

To fully describe his conduct in denouncing Arnold and Arnold's tergiversation and intrigues against him would lead me far afield.

From Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold by Howe, Archibald Murray

What was Howe's explanation of his Lordship's tergiversation?

From The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe by Grant, W. L. (William Lawson)

In consequence of this belief the devils became the rivals, indeed the successful rivals, of Jupiter himself in the art of physical tergiversation.

From Elizabethan Demonology by Spalding, Thomas Alfred

Lincoln would not allow himself to be swerved from the main issue by any tergiversation or personal attacks.

From Abraham Lincoln by Putnam, George Haven