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
  • There’s no The Bear-style ambiguity for awards purposes.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2024
  • To play the ambiguity was the most challenging and fun part of being part of the show.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of ambiguity
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  • Rotation shuffle: With Kevin Love missing the game with the back spasms that had him out after his initial stint in Tuesday night’s loss to the Bucks, first-round pick Ware played as the Heat’s first big man off the bench.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The clogs—which are filled with some sort of Tempurpedic material inside and come in a variety of designs for all animal lovers—are so comfortable for a morning shuffle to the coffee shop or around the backyard.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 26 Nov. 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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  • This, along with the ICC's decision to indict a Hamas commander—in the same breath as Netanyahu and Gallant—exposes the macabre moral equivocation that so often lurks behind the legal mumbo jumbo of both international organizations.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Whatever happened to honesty in lieu of lies, equivocations or alternative facts?
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of equivocation
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“Tergiversation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tergiversation. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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