Synonyms for tergiversation
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Perfidy — the act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal
2. Evasion
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
- n. 2
The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
Related words
- Word family
- tergiversate
Forms
- Plural
- tergiversations → perfidies, traitories, proditions, evasions…
Example sentences
- evasion Tax officials are zeroing in on income tax evasion.
- subterfuge I apologize for the subterfuge.
- instability There is constant political instability in Morocco.
- apostasy Tom's apostasy will not go unpunished.
- veering I saw his car veering to the right.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| tergiversation | falling | |
| perfidy | steady | |
| evasion | steady | |
| subterfuge | steady | |
| instability | steady | |
| apostasy | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- evasion3, veering2, perfidy3
- 8 letters
- apostasy, traitory
- 9 letters
- prodition
- 10 letters
- subterfuge3
- 11 letters
- instability5
- 12 letters
- equivocation5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evasion3 = 3 syllables).