Tergiversation

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  • n. The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
  • n. The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
  • n. Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.
  • n. The act of changing one's opinions or of turning from them; the act of turning against a cause formerly advocated; fickleness or instability of conduct.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
  • n. the act of abandoning a party for cause
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    misrepresentation    falsification    abandonment    desertion    forsaking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shifting    shift    subterfuge    evasion    inconstancy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prevarication    fragmentariness    growthv    sophism    equivocation   
     
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