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

Our vulgar idea of a party is a week or fortnight of previous discomfort and chaotic tergiversation, and the mistress of it all distracted and worn out with endless cares.

From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

In its long career of tergiversation, never had this noted newspaper been driven into such a position of shame.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

He is very anxious that his political friends should not desist from urging the question—an act of tergiversation and unconsistency which, he thinks, would ruin them in the estimation of the public.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

The other charge preferred by Naudé as to the pretended cure of consumption, and the consequent quibbling and tergiversation, is a more valid one.

From Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study by Waters, W. G. (William George)