Definition of "tergiversating" []

• Present participle of tergiversate. (verb)

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• "E.g., much has been made of Obama's cultural sensitivity applied to his communications with Iran, but beneath that culturally sensitive gloss or facade is a certain appeasement, a certain tergiversating quality - a certain incoherence and, seemingly, a level of incomprehension."
• "This is why Durban II should receive a resolute, an unambiguous volte face - not a tergiversating, lukewarm reception cum critical review, which very ambiguity itself has long been the bane of diplomacy and discussions and relationships in general in this theater. elixelx"
• "At any rate, whatever your motivations are, you are still tergiversating, since the most direct response to another person whom one disagrees with is to state what is factually wrong with their position, which you have now repeatedly avoided doing."