tergiversation

• Shimo is to answer the questions--without tergiversation or lying. —  Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2
• In a perfect heat of vexation with himself for such tergiversation, he went anew to the shop-door, was absolutely ashamed to enter and give further trouble, went to another shop, bought a pair at an enormously increased price, because they seemed the very thing, asked the goldsmiths if they would take the other pair in exchange, was told that they could not exchange articles bought of another maker, paid down the money, and went off with the two pairs in his possession, wondering what on earth to do with the superfluous pair. —  A Pair of Blue Eyes
• Innuendo, political intrigue, diplomatic tergiversation--in all these he was a master. —  Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
• Froude's specific charge of rapid tergiversation is disproved by dates. —  The Life of Froude
• 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. —  A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3

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