0 the act of making statements that are different from each other, so that they cannot both be true:
Short-term tergiversations were in part cyclical, related as they were to the seasonal character of longdistance commerce, land-based and maritime alike.
I wonder what happened to account for one of the most bare-faced tergiversations, if that is not mixing my metaphors, in parliamentary history.
Despite all the tergiversations and excuses, the system is unsatisfactory.
Let us, out of charity, pass the sponge over their former tergiversations.
One smiles like an accomplice in their doubts, slippings and tergiversations.
Despised by all for his tergiversations, he nevertheless was sought by all on account of his cleverness.
They might come into new talks, but they are masters of tergiversation.
I can only describe the speech as being circumlocutory, peripatetic, and a gross piece of tergiversation.
