Definition of "temporizes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of temporize. (verb)

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• "But if Obama temporizes now, he faces a slow unraveling of the flimsy financial house that Geithner built, and an even weaker economy."
• "Friends and neighbours have literally had to hold bake sales to keep them alive, while the government prevaricates and temporizes."
• "And I'm really not seeing where the Hillaroids who've making all those ominous rumblings about the Rezko trial, which they know full well has nothing to do with Obama, have any room to wax indignant if we gig her with it, especially when she temporizes when she should just say what she effing thinks."