Tergiversate

v. i.

1.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

Verb	1.	tergiversate - be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, prevaricate
	2.	tergiversate - abandon one's beliefs or allegiances Synonyms: apostatise, apostatize

alternate, apostatize, around the bush, back and fill, beat about, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, change, choplogic, come round, desert, dither, do a flip-flop, do an about-face, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, fluctuate, have second thoughts, hedge, hem and haw, hum and haw, mince the truth, mince words, mystify, nitpick, obscure, oscillate, palter, parry, pendulate, pick nits, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, rat, renounce, repudiate, shift, shilly-shally, shuffle, shy, sidestep, split hairs, teeter, totter, turn, vacillate, vary, waffle, waver, weasel, wheel, wobble

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