Tergiversated

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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of tergiversate.
  • Word Usage
    "We proposed to make it a Midshipman Easy duel, a three-cornered fight -- Brothers Homan and Benson vs. the "Apostle," but they wiggled in and they wiggled out, they temporized and tergiversated until we saw there wasn't an ounce of fight in the whole Prohibition crew -- that, after their flamboyant defi, we couldn't pull 'em into a joint debate with a span of mules and a log-cabin."
    Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    repudiate    disown    renounce    misinform    mislead   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shift    shuffle    prevaricate    desert