Tergiversation

n.	1.	The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. - Abp. Bramhall.
	2.	Fickleness of conduct; inconstancy; change. The colonel, after all his tergiversations, lost his life in the king's service. - Clarendon.

Noun	1.	tergiversation - falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language Synonyms: equivocation
	2.	tergiversation - the act of abandoning a party or cause Synonyms: apostasy

about-face, amphibology, apostasy, denial, desertion, disavowal, double entendre, double meaning, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, falseness, forswearing, recreancy, renunciation, repudiation, reversal, reverse