Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises tergiversation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
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- noun one who
tergiversates
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- noun a respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer
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Examples
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But enough of this miserable tergiversator, who ought indeed either to have been of more truth, or less trusted by his country.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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Like the present Lucius Marcius Philippus’s grandfather, he was a born tergiversator, saw no disgrace in changing sides whenever instinct prompted it.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Like the present Lucius Marcius Philippus’s grandfather, he was a born tergiversator, saw no disgrace in changing sides whenever instinct prompted it.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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