tergiversation

IPA: tɝgˈɪvɝsˈeɪʃʌn

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

Examples of "tergiversation" in Sentences

'tergiversation' is a long and yet far from exhaustive list.
ANC, as opposed to the NNP's "tergiversation", DA leader Tony Leon said on Friday.
The honorable member then adverted to that tergiversation of principle which the career of political individuals so often presented.
He went for what he believed to be the right in the straightest possible manner, and had a huge scorn of other men who were given to tergiversation or trickery.
"tergiversation" and it passed to the girl from the Red Mill, who spelled it without hesitation, and correctly, Helen applauded softly, while Tom audibly exclaimed: "Good for Ruthie!"
Van Schalkwyk and his conduct in South African public life over the past decade was completely defined by an obscure old English word dating from the sixteenth century - "tergiversation".
A Week End Reading package dispatched two years later included A fascinating but somewhat implausible account of Chancellor Adenauers tergiversation on the test ban treaty; the latest Gallup Poll on the Conservatives in Britain; a private cable from Bowles; Joseph Alsops views on Diem and Nhu; and an interesting memorandum on our relative economic leverage with South Africa.