Meaning of tergiversation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“They make⟳ their outward impudence their mask, as foxes, the better we may not see⟳ where they truly tend⟳, nor their true black tergiversation beneath.”

“Anyone who desires an hour's amusement may be advised to look⟳ up the tergiversations of eminent craniologists in their attempts to prove⟳ from brain measurements that women are stupider than men.”

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