Synonyms of tergiversating

tergiversating

verb

present participle of tergiversate

as in weaseling

to avoid giving a definite answer or position

shamelessly tergiversating, the witness replied, "Well, it depends upon what your definition of 'truth' is"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• weaseling
• beating about the bush
• hemming and hawing
• beating around the bush
• shaking
• hedging
• straddling the fence
• waffling
• dodging
• ducking
• pussyfooting
• equivocating
• evading
• fudging
• eluding
• shunning
• cavilling
• skirting
• eschewing
• flip-flopping
• caviling
• circumventing
• bypassing
• shirking
• sidestepping
• yo-yoing
• quibbling
• straddling