Meanings of tergiversation in English

His cynical tergiversation at the end makes his previous conduct ridiculous.

Innuendo, political intrigue, diplomatic tergiversation-inall these he was a master.

Such tergiversation in times of civil discord was nothing new.

Froude's specific charge of rapid tergiversation is disproved by dates.

There was something about him which ennobled tergiversation itself.

Orange deemed such tergiversation paltry, but controlled his anger.

Neither she nor Abraham deemed it important to speak the truth when any form of tergiversation might serve them.

But why all this tergiversation?

General Bugeaud, away on the frontier, was losing patience, and wrote me letter after letter, complaining of my tergiversation!

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

Boldwood had for the first time been awakened to woman's privileges in tergiversation even when it involves another person's possible blight.

Hence it was just as well to go to the end of her logic, where reasons for tergiversation would be most pronounced.

In consequence of this belief the devils became the rivals, indeed the successful rivals, of Jupiter himself in the art of physical tergiversation.

Then, with diplomatic tergiversation, he represented that the conflict was not a political one, but purely religious, involving the interests of the Church.

Between the two strong natures there was no subterfuge, no suggestion of polite evasions, of tergiversation, only the plea of truth to truth.

The evidence of one gentleman in particular drew attention: he was accused of tergiversation, and of showing that partial indulgence which his own conduct required.