temporising BrE
temporizing AmE

Any temporising now will confirm those who take the view that America's murmurings were indeed bluff.

There was no blurring of the edges with her, no worrying round in circles, no temporising.

On talking to the Station Master, he is taken for a deserter, one Private Binkle, and after some temporising is arrested and carried bodily off by four native policeman.

The Divan granted all the concessions which Ali demanded, affecting ignorance of his projects of revolt and his intelligence with the enemies of the State; but then apparent weakness was merely prudent temporising.