tergiversor

tergiversor —, ārī, dep.

tergum+verto, to turn the back, decline, refuse, make difficulties, boggle, shuffle, evade, shift, tergiversate : quid tergiversaris?: hunc tergiversantem iudicio persequi: non incallide: locus ad tergiversandum: (consulem) tergiversari res cogebat, L.