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What does tergiversate mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
  2. (intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
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Collectively they were called tergiversate particles because they were so ambiguous, misleading and illusive.
The king's monitor laughed outright at this most awkward attempt of His Majesty to tergiversate.
It would be advisable to think that in this context we can only and briefly recall duties and opportunities offered to our Enterprises which have no more time to tergiversate.
If the ego-self is able to pretend to be interested in others and if it is able to approach them with tact to achieve its goals, it remains different from the coherent-self that, by definition, cannot pretend or tergiversate.
That it was quite evident that Servetus had not replied satisfactorily to the questions put to him, and had done nothing but lie, vary, and tergiversate.
To tergiversate is the act of becoming renegades, to force them to do an about-face and to change their minds.

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