All tergiversation synonyms
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T t noun tergiversation
- deceptiveness — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- castoff — thrown away; discarded; abandoned
- equivoque — An expression capable of having more than one meaning; a pun.
- amphibiology — The branch of science that deals with amphibious animals.
- double entendre — a double meaning.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- evasiveness — The quality of being evasive.
- castoffs — Plural form of castoff.
- coverup — an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
- forsaking — Present participle of forsake.
- disownment — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
- amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- hedging — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
- elusion — The act of eluding.
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- apostasy — If someone is accused of apostasy, they are accused of abandoning their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
- double-entendre — a double meaning.
- dissimulation — the act of dissimulating; feigning; hypocrisy.
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- fibbing — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- equivocacy — Equivocalness.
- indeterminateness — The quality of being indeterminate.
- ambiguity — If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
- equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.