THESAURUS
mugwump
Fabian policy, Micawberism, Milquetoast, anythingarian, apostate, backslider, backwardness, big boy, big chief, big shot, bigwig, bolter, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, deserter, dilatoriness, fence-sitter, fifth columnist, free lance, free spirit, free trader, freethinker, heavyweight, hesitation, high-muck-a-muck, hold-off, independent, individualist, isolationist, jellyfish, latitudinarian, laxness, leader, liberal, libertarian, libertine, lion, nabob, neuter, neutral, nonpartisan, nothingarian, procrastination, proselyte, quisling, recidivist, recreant, remissness, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, rugged individualist, runagate, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, separatist, shilly-shally, slackness, slowness, stall, strikebreaker, swing vote, temporization, tergiversant, tergiversator, third force, third world, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, uncommitted voter, waverer, weakling, wobbler
ROGET THESAURUS
mugwump
Tergiversation
N
tergiversation, change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose, afterthought, tergiversation, recantation, palinode, palinody, renunciation, abjuration, abjurement, defection, going over, apostasy, retraction, retractation, withdrawal, disavowal, revocation, revokement, reversal, repentance, redintegratio amoris, coquetry, vacillation, backsliding, volte-face, turn coat, turn tippet, rat, apostate, renegade, convert, pervert, proselyte, deserter, backslider, blackleg, crawfish, scab,
mugwump, recidivist, time server, time pleaser, timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter, weathercock, Janus, changeful, irresolute, ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving, coquetting, revocatory, reactionary, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream.