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

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

But, amidst the tergiversation of friends, and the virulence of foes, some still maintained the cause of justice.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

The author well observes that frivolity and ignorance, rather than deliberate guilt, are the causes of political error and tergiversation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 by Various