Associations to the word «Tergiversation»
Wiktionary
TERGIVERSATION, noun. The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
TERGIVERSATION, noun. The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
Dictionary definition
TERGIVERSATION, noun. Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language.
TERGIVERSATION, noun. The act of abandoning a party for cause.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.