as in to weasel
to avoid giving a definite answer or position
shamelessly tergiversating, the witness replied, "Well, it depends upon what your definition of 'truth' is"
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One of Wishman’s most Sapphic films is this gritty black-and-white sexploitation shocker about assassins who weasel their way into an apartment shared by two lesbians in order to kill a foreign dignitary.—
Erik Piepenburg,
New York Times,
2 June 2025 -
Trying to weasel things by providing additional levels is abhorrent.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
20 Nov. 2024
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Countries can hedge their bets or equivocate by playing one power off the other.—
Jorge Heine,
The Conversation,
7 July 2025
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But plans were never set in stone, and Irvine equivocated as to where in the city the cemetery should go.—
Jonathan Horwitz,
Oc Register,
28 May 2025
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“Tergiversate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tergiversate. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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