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Tergiversation

noun
1.
Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language.  Synonym: equivocation.
2.
The act of abandoning a party for cause.  Synonym: apostasy.





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"Tergiversation" Quotes from Famous Books



... During this tergiversation of Roland and his colleagues, Dumouriez acquired the favour of the king and the people, the secret of his conduct being comprised in what he had said a short time before to M. de Montmorin, in a secret conversation he had with that minister. "If I were ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine
... the Peel administration have chosen to engage with the agricultural interest of England, has added to the mischief. Their unexampled political tergiversation has deprived them of the support of almost all their former adherents; and now, when they see the evil consequences of the vacillating policy which they have pursued with regard to Ireland, and are desirous of repressing the enormities which ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various


Words linked to "Tergiversation" :   desertion, falsification, abandonment, forsaking, tergiversate, misrepresentation, equivocation


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