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
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.