| 单词 | tergiversation |
| 例句 | The legends are many, but one theme that frequently emerges shows her, disgusted with the tergiversations of self-serving humans, dancing with such fury that the whole earth shakes and mountains topple into the sea. Do not underestimate the curse of Greer ? the Hindu goddess Kali is on my side 2010-10-03T21:31:00Z In the book he suggests that Mr. McGinniss, who lived and worked next to the defense team, was callow and opportunistic, a writer who traveled “a slippery slope of tergiversation, opportunism and self-interest.” Errol Morris Takes on MacDonald Murder Case 2012-08-29T12:00:21Z We have Washington Post columnist George Will to thank for “tergiversation.” Merriam-Webster declares ‘they’ its 2019 word of the year 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z During the government shutdown, Graham’s tergiversations — sorry, this is the precise word — have amazed. Opinion | Why do people such as Lindsey Graham come to Congress? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Given the Tory leader's tergiversations on Europe, how confident can Heseltine really be that Cameron might not end up sliding into a position of advocating withdrawal? Michael Heseltine: 'People are deeply frustrated after six years of being beaten up by austerity' 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z There is a kind of dark comedy to be found in these constant tergiversations, although the subject matter is far from humorous. 10 out of 10: The Love-Hate Relationship Of Britain's Biggest-Selling Newspapers And Call of Duty 2012-12-18T21:07:31Z This kind of emotional tergiversation is pretty close to how I imagine life in a girl band. London 2012: China has no interest in synchronised swimming and that gives us a chance 2012-08-06T19:08:15Z Sign it if you like; but sign it quickly; for this night brings all tergiversation to an end. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z After many tergiversations he was convicted of heresy, when, to save his confiscated property, he agreed to recant and undergo such penance as might be assigned to him. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The tergiversation of the Government wrung from Dr. Chalmers the exclamation, that "the morality of politicians was the morality of horse-jockies." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The natural characteristics of evil are fear, shame, tergiversation, regret; yet the Christian criminal is glad to be accused, prays to be condemned and is happy to suffer. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z To vote confidence in an imperilled ministry, and on its defeat to take office with the rivals who have defeated it, is a manœuvre which invites the reproach of tergiversation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z But, amidst the tergiversation of friends, and the virulence of foes, some still maintained the cause of justice. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z In any case, I am led to believe that it was Lamartine's tergiversations and his semi-connivance with the enemy that saved us, while it ruined him. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z In his peroration the speaker commented upon Toombs’s tergiversation with such effective severity it elicited wild applause from the men of his side. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z The pension of three hundred a year obtained for him of the crown by his influential friends was not the reward of baseness or of political tergiversation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Afterward the same author charged Burroughs with “tergiversations, contradictions, and falsehoods.” Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Many are the causes which may dissolve the bonds of faithless “conjurations;” and it is not always he who abandons a party who is to be criminated by political tergiversation. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Despised by all for his tergiversations, he nevertheless was sought by all on account of his cleverness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z In its long career of tergiversation, never had this noted newspaper been driven into such a position of shame. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The blind, foolish faith in the Bible is the cause of intellectual dishonesty, moral hypocrisy, and religious tergiversations without number. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z So great, however, were the tumults in Rome that he was forced to face about once again, but his tergiversation gave a fatal blow to the cause. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z It is surprising how few repetitions there are, how few tergiversations, how few unnecessary words; and yet the style is not so austere as to be dry and lacking in human interest. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z "Is there not ample reason for an abatement of the northern tone, for a forbearance of northern urgency upon this subject, without the imputation of tergiversation and treachery?" Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z It was not true, though it made Ferdinand very cordial for a time, and soon the relations between England and Spain resumed their usual course of smooth-tongued distrust and tergiversation. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History He turned instinctively from the technicalities, the tergiversations, the gladiatorial display and contention of the legal profession. Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 This tergiversation in public men forms the subject of one of HB’s happiest inspirations. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Jay's mind was embittered by the tergiversations of Spain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 Some political tergiversation has been laid to his charge; Swift accused him of having once been an advocate for passive obedience and absolute power. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The peripatetic patriots who invade the rural communities seem to be easy, extemporaneous liars, having a natural gift for tergiversation, an undeniable gift for mendacity, an inexhaustible fertility of invention. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule It is the blunders, the tergiversations, the gropings, and the crimes of our internal domestic policy, which, protracting the war, allows the French conspirator to murder the Mexicans. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Happily in this occurrency, the many, the people at large, by its grasp and forwardness, supplies and neutralizes the inefficiency or the tergiversations, intrigues and double-dealings of the few, of the official leaders, advisers, etc. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The patience of even such heroic souls as Lydia Becker and Caroline Biggs was almost exhausted with the tergiversations of members of the House of Commons. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III What was Howe's explanation of his Lordship's tergiversation? The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe Cort�s did not trouble himself about the continued tergiversations of Montezuma, who could not make up his mind to the last moment whether he would receive the Spaniards as friends or enemies. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World To fully describe his conduct in denouncing Arnold and Arnold's tergiversation and intrigues against him would lead me far afield. Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold What endless entertainment is derivable from striving to follow its tergiversations! The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Stephens, Alexander H., his character, 29; his views concerning military matters, ib.; his tergiversation, ib.; neglect of Jefferson Davis, 30. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War It is no way out of it to put down Kormak's tergiversations to sorcery. Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America Raging with indignation at what he conceived to be the tergiversation of his leader and the treachery to his hero, Bland-Burges once again forced himself upon the attention of the House. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III No more perversion of sense, circumlocution, reticence, tergiversation! these things serve only to complicate and bewilder. The Simple Life His misgivings and tergiversations had so much delayed him by the way, that it was past midnight, and the train was already due. The Nebuly Coat Innuendo, political intrigue, diplomatic tergiversation—in all these he was a master. Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport Why, I wonder, young man, you ain’t ashamed to look me in the face after such a string of tergiversations.” Frank Oldfield Lost and Found I said, getting quite impatient at his tergiversation. She and I, Volume 1 The Times, while it appears to lead, in reality waits upon public opinion, and hence the accusations of inconsistency and tergiversation so freely lavished upon it. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Who does not see the manifest advantage which highway robbers would derive, were travellers when asked if they had gold, jewels, etc., obliged either to invent tergiversations or to answer 'Yes, we have?' Apologia pro Vita Sua The other charge preferred by Naudé as to the pretended cure of consumption, and the consequent quibbling and tergiversation, is a more valid one. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study And he turned his back toward him, leaving him uncertain whether all the tergiversations of the second lighter had escaped the notice of the first. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" I am almost ashamed to remark upon the tergiversations and prevarications perpetually ringing the changes in this declaration. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) And I am compelled in truth to say that the entries in my index under ‘covetousness’ and under ‘time-serving’ and ‘tergiversation’ is a long and yet far from exhaustive list. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents But his subsequent tergiversations have proved him conspicuously base. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 But the double policy, which had involved him in the shifts and tergiversations of his earlier career, still dominated the mind of the ambitious earl. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Then, with diplomatic tergiversation, he represented that the conflict was not a political one, but purely religious, involving the interests of the Church. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power Clement by a series of treaties, treacheries, and tergiversations had deprived himself of every friend and exasperated every foe. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Just in the same way, the violent and prolonged debates, the intrigue, the tergiversation, which attended the acceptance of the famous Bull Unigenitus, taught shrewd observers how it is that religions establish themselves. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Vincent St. George, disgusted at such gross tergiversation, flies entirely away from the point at issue, and applies those remarks to Julie which all disappointed lovers seem to be bound to utter in such cases. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, He had made Scotland a nation, and nobly redeemed the tergiversation and violence of his earlier career. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) The author well observes that frivolity and ignorance, rather than deliberate guilt, are the causes of political error and tergiversation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 These peremptory tripartite brethren arrived at Greenwich, wishing to aggrandize themselves by indulging in exemplary relaxation, indicatory of implacable detestation of integral tergiversation and exoteric intrigue. 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading His tergiversation of mood proves only that there were two Walpoles, not that the Walpole of the romantic enthusiasms was insincere. The Art of Letters Antonyms: constant, unwavering, steadfast, resolute. fickleness, n. vacillation, irresolution, inconstancy, volatility, tergiversation, capriciousness. fiddle, n. violin; kit. fiddler, n. violinist. fidelity, n. loyalty, fealty, faithfulness; truth, integrity. Putnam's Word Book Athol was distinguished by the violence and suddenness of his tergiversations. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) That which originates in the purest patriotism, will be termed an unworthy tergiversation; but the reward of these great and good men will be found in their own breasts. The Idler in France In consequence of this belief the devils became the rivals, indeed the successful rivals, of Jupiter himself in the art of physical tergiversation. Elizabethan Demonology To think otherwise would be to impute to him a degree of tergiversation and fraudulent deception of which I suppose him to be entirely incapable. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style Associated word: vituline. veering, n. shift, shifting; vacillation, tergiversation; temporizing, time-serving. vegetable, n. plant, truck. vegetable oyster. salsify. vegetate, v. sprout, grow, germinate, pullulate; rusticate, hibernate. vehemence, n. fervency, impetuosity, intensity, zeal. Putnam's Word Book Our vulgar idea of a party is a week or fortnight of previous discomfort and chaotic tergiversation, and the mistress of it all distracted and worn out with endless cares. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel But as he contradicted himself flatly in trying to restate his discourse, and refused to let us see his sermon, those who heard him were disgusted with his sophistry and tergiversation. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Charles and La Tremoille once more began their course of hesitation, tergiversation, and changes of tactics and residence without doing anything of a public and decisive character. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 Lincoln would not allow himself to be swerved from the main issue by any tergiversation or personal attacks. Abraham Lincoln And in order to gain admission to this "plebeian aristocracy" men otherwise reasonable and honest will spend incredible sums, undergo prodigious exertions, associate themselves with the basest intrigues, and perform the most unblushing tergiversations. Collections and Recollections He is very anxious that his political friends should not desist from urging the question—an act of tergiversation and unconsistency which, he thinks, would ruin them in the estimation of the public. Famous Reviews The patience of even such heroic souls as Lydia Becker and Caroline Biggs was almost exhausted with the tergiversations of Members of the House of Commons. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Between the two strong natures there was no subterfuge, no suggestion of polite evasions, of tergiversation, only the plea of truth to truth. Within the Law I take the worst view of the matter; and, that I may not be accused of tergiversation and evasion of difficulties, I acknowledge all the inequalities that any one can desire. What is Property? The popular sentiment, on which both he and Charles had reckoned to promote an insurrectionary movement, confused by the tergiversations and the ambiguous actions of the hetman, had quite gone astray and lost all consistency. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 It argued a fastidious sensitiveness of conscience, and a nice sense of political propriety so opposed to the sordid selfishness and unblushing tergiversation of the ordinary place-hunter as to be almost offensive.' The Grand Old Man Their claim to have had conversations with God daily and to have acted under His commands in all their tergiversations of word and action is simply blasphemous. The Woman's Bible But the political tergiversations of Barrère, a man of noble birth, and who was a royalist Feuillant before the 10th of August, did not countenance his assuming this imperious and inflexible tone. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 His cynical tergiversation at the end makes his previous conduct ridiculous. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller It was from Frey Miguel, after a thousand prevarications and tergiversations, that the full truth—known to himself alone—was extracted by the rack. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Immediate steps were taken to remove the menace to European tranquillity which arose from what the Austrian Ambassador called "the Porte's long delays and tergiversation." The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Neither she nor Abraham deemed it important to speak the truth when any form of tergiversation might serve them. The Woman's Bible The father's tergiversations with Cromwell may be supposed to have given a glamour of kingcraft to his sojourn later, but the bad part which the son took against his wife was without one dignifying circumstance. London Films The king of Denmark, too, formed an alliance with them, after a series of the most strange tergiversations. Holland The History of the Netherlands Now he lies full length, then half-length, obliquely, transversely, head and feet quite across the bed; and none accuses him of tergiversation. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia This amendment eased the conscience of a few shy supporters of the Administration who had committed themselves very strongly against the scheme, and saved them from the shame of open tergiversation. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 It is shameful vacillation—I love a long word—What's the other word I was trying for?—still longer—I mean, tergiversation! it comes from tergum and verso, and means turning the back. The Crown of Life A few mornings later he felt a rush of shame at his own tergiversations, and stalked into the library with Vyse's sentence on his tongue. Tales of Men and Ghosts It is both to my honor and my interest that I keep faith with Russia,, and eschew all shifts and tergiversations in my dealings with her. Joseph II. and His Court Hence it was just as well to go to the end of her logic, where reasons for tergiversation would be most pronounced. The Hand of Ethelberta She was back once more, and her wild tergiversations were a secret from him whom alone they concerned. A Changed Man; and other tales The agent sneered and cut short the tergiversations of the Marquis. The Champdoce Mystery Such tergiversation in times of civil discord was nothing new. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 There was something about him which ennobled tergiversation itself. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 I must tell you, however, in confidence, I suspect Tabby of tergiversation. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker The scales seemed to fall from his eyes, and the duplicity and tergiversation of which he had been guilty stung him at once with remorse and shame. Kenilworth |
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