tergiversate.
Politicians do it all the time.
Never stop learning
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Greynomad
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Never stop learning
Learned a new word today:
tergiversate.
Politicians do it all the time.
tergiversate.
Politicians do it all the time.
Regards & God bless,
Ray
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Ray
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"Insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question"
"I refuse to drink water, because of the disgusting things fish do in it"
W.C.Fields
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Dot
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Re: Never stop learning
verbal diarrhoea ??
Queen of the Banal & OT chatter and proud of it. If it offends you then tough titty titty bang bang.
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Re: Never stop learning
Wow, never heard that word before. If I had I might have a clue how to pronounce it.Greynomad wrote:Learned a new word today:
tergiversate.
Politicians do it all the time. [emoji16]
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Re: Never stop learning
I just googled it. Great answer.
I wonder why none of us had ever heard of it before. It would seem that politicians and our legal system do this almost all of the time.
Direct from a Google search page.
Synonyms for tergiversate
Synonyms
equivocate, fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, waffle, weasel
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Examples of tergiversate in a Sentence
shamelessly tergiversating, the witness replied, “Well, it depends upon what your definition of ‘truth’ is”
I wonder why none of us had ever heard of it before. It would seem that politicians and our legal system do this almost all of the time.
Direct from a Google search page.
Synonyms for tergiversate
Synonyms
equivocate, fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, waffle, weasel
Visit the Thesaurus for More
Examples of tergiversate in a Sentence
shamelessly tergiversating, the witness replied, “Well, it depends upon what your definition of ‘truth’ is”
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David
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jon_d
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Re: Never stop learning
Well spotted Dave.
Unfortunately, I think you've used the British Google site.
The Australian google site has a little more info.
Synonyms for tergiversate
Synonyms
equivocate, fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, waffle, weasel
Visit the Thesaurus for More
Examples of tergiversate in a Sentence
shamelessly tergiversating, the witness replied, “Well, it depends upon what your definition of ‘truth’ is”
Homonym: tergivearates
Synonyms
uninterested, tuned out,
Examples of tergivearates in a Sentence
The politician was shamelessly tergiversating and pub audience seemed not tergivearats.
Unfortunately, I think you've used the British Google site.
The Australian google site has a little more info.
Synonyms for tergiversate
Synonyms
equivocate, fudge, hedge, pussyfoot, waffle, weasel
Visit the Thesaurus for More
Examples of tergiversate in a Sentence
shamelessly tergiversating, the witness replied, “Well, it depends upon what your definition of ‘truth’ is”
Homonym: tergivearates
Synonyms
uninterested, tuned out,
Examples of tergivearates in a Sentence
The politician was shamelessly tergiversating and pub audience seemed not tergivearats.