Usually means: Evasively changing one's stance repeatedly.
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  1. tergiversating: Merriam-Webster
  2. tergiversating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tergiversating: Wiktionary
  4. tergiversating: Dictionary.com
  5. tergiversating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tergiversating: Legal dictionary

(Note: See tergiversate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tergiversate)

verb:  (intransitive) To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to obfuscate in a deliberate manner.
verb:  (intransitive) To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.
verb:  (intransitive, rare) To flee by turning one's back.
▸ Also see tergiversate


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