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tergiversation

noun

ˌtər-ˌji-vər-ˈsā-shən How to pronounce tergiversation (audio)
Definition of tergiversationnext
as in ambiguity
deliberate evasion in speech like many politicians, he has the gift for tergiversation

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  1. ambiguity
  2. shuffle
  3. circumlocution
  4. equivocation
Noun
  • Where American Primeval has at least allowed a sliver of ambiguity when portraying whether or not Young was complicit in the massacre’s cover-up until now, there’s none of that here.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The pleasure mostly derives from picking out the remaining ambiguities, especially related to the film’s flash-forward coda; the finale has already inspired a lot of heated social-media debate over its intention.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of ambiguity
Noun
  • Players can use the shuffle button to mix up the words on the screen if they get stuck.
    Billie Schwab Dunn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • There may be a shuffle with advertising money and consumer preferences shuffling, but everything is only additive.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of shuffle
Noun
  • Here, instead, she’s swayed by a dead Diana softly squeezing her hand and kindly hinting — the dead Diana is an ace at tactful circumlocution — that now is the time to show a mourning nation some emotion.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • By condensing Balzac’s opus to a few paragraphs, Barthelme was having a laugh not just at his predecessor’s genteel circumlocution—his tendency to describe buildings and manufacturing procedures and family trees in lavish detail—but also at the conventions of novelistic mimesis itself.
    Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
Definition of circumlocution
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  • The debate has pitted New York mayor, Eric Adams, who has condemned the murder without equivocation, against a significant groundswell of support for the alleged murderer.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The Rios-Pineda Court observed, with little question or equivocation, that because the child was born in the United States, the child was in fact a citizen.
    Madison Czopek, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of equivocation
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“Tergiversation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tergiversation. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.

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