tergiversation

Etymology
From, from +. Equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
 * 2) The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
 * 1) The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: отста́пништво, отстапу́вање


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Macedonian: вр́тење
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) delays in providing a clear answer caused by hesitations or an outright unwillingness to be forthright

Usage notes

 * Usage as a pluralia tantum rather than as a mass noun is more common.