tergiversation

noun

ˌtər-ˌji-vər-ˈsā-shən How to pronounce tergiversation (audio)
Definition of tergiversationnext
as in ambiguity
deliberate evasion in speech like many politicians, he has the gift for tergiversation

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  1. ambiguity
  2. shuffle
  3. circumlocution
  4. equivocation
Noun
  • The great efficacy of such a threat lies not in its use but entirely in the threat, the ambiguity.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
  • All of humankind’s dualities and ambiguities are the dualities and ambiguities that exist in these characters.
    Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of ambiguity
Noun
  • This business is all about the little eccentrics out there who get lost in the shuffle.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Up ⬆ September 5 Photo: Jurgen Olczyk/Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection After a last-minute release-date shuffle, the year’s most elusive contender opened this Friday.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of shuffle
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  • Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.
    Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
Definition of circumlocution
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  • The debate has pitted New York mayor, Eric Adams, who has condemned the murder without equivocation, against a significant groundswell of support for the alleged murderer.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The Rios-Pineda Court observed, with little question or equivocation, that because the child was born in the United States, the child was in fact a citizen.
    Madison Czopek, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of equivocation
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“Tergiversation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tergiversation. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.

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