tergiversate

IPA: tɝgˈɪvɝsʌt

(intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
(intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
(intransitive, rare) To flee by turning one's back.

Examples of "tergiversate" in Sentences

To tergiversate is to: a. restore a piece of land from a state of despoilment.
Not really do we preserve the unexcelled prices but our turnaround tergiversate payment your Xrumer posting is wonderful fast.
At Dictionary.com they went for "tergiversate" - perhaps to force people to use dictionary.com to look up what the hell the word even means.
The testimony which stirred up the bile of the holy fathers could not but be given, unless you had been willing basely to tergiversate and to expose yourself to their taunts. "
But unfortunately the expulsion of James II, which he called his "abdication," compelled him to use all reserve, to shuffle and to tergiversate, in order to avoid making William out a usurper.