as in ambiguity
deliberate evasion in speech
like many politicians, he has the gift for tergiversation
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Noun
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The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.—
Sally Jane Brown,
The Conversation,
29 Sep. 2025 -
The ambiguity of authorship is meant to unsettle the reading of the text.—
Lana Lin
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The clip ends with Snoop doing a snow shuffle to the Olympic theme.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
29 Sep. 2025
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All is quiet except for the shuffle of hooves, as the mounts shift the weight of their riders and their heavy armor.—
Greg Grandin
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Their circumlocutions were as entrancing as their ability to find the most precisely ironic words for difficult-to-name realities.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 July 2025
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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
Noun
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The rest of the statement was full of equally cowardly equivocation.—
Sahar Mustafah
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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Their robust negations appeared to put both them and their American hosts on the right side of history, compared with writers in the unfree world of authoritarian regimes, who seemed to have been permanently tainted by lies, equivocations, and evasions.—
Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Tergiversation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tergiversation. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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