(noun) evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement; equivocation / (noun) desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith
I am condemned to be a saint or a monster: unable to be the one, unwilling to be the other: hence I tergiversate: I show my passion a little.
His tergiversations, his inability to take the firm and realistic decisions which so distinguished his career and had become the complete expression of his personality
No doubt almost any consistent economic policy and stable form of government would have served Argentina better between World War II and the Falklands debacle than constant, bloody tergiversation
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