Temporize is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TEMPORIZE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to delay so as to gain time or to avoid making a decision, also TEMPORISE
• avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time
• gain time by negotiation or evasiveness
• To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
• To delay; to procrastinate.
• To comply; to agree.
• draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to act to suit the time or occasion; yield to current or dominant opinion

Words related to TEMPORIZE

temporise13 temporized24 temporizes23 temporizing25 temporizingly30 temporizings26

Words that contain TEMPORIZE

temporized24 temporizer23 temporizes23 extemporize31 temporizers24 contemporize27 extemporized33 extemporizer32 extemporizes32 contemporized29 contemporizes28 extemporizers33

How to use TEMPORIZE in a sentence

• According to all the canons of expediency, it was the sign of a sagacious ruler to temporize and promise and deceive in that sad perplexity.
• And even with Edwin Clayhanger she wished to temporize.
• Jobson sat eyeing her supper, instead of eating it, that he began to temporize.
• The Governor sent also, by the same messenger, a letter to Brigham Young, in which there were expressions that indicated a disposition to temporize.
• To secure the safety of those leaders who were under indictment for treason, there was no choice except between flight and inducing the Federal authorities to temporize.
• The Reverend Crane tried to temporize, hesitating over his words.
• It is not here to temporize, but to make all things new, and it strikes at the heart of evil and not at its surface.
• This feeling was really at the bottom of the late rising and the leisurely breakfast, making him temporize where he had meant to be prompt, energetic and vigorously aggressive.
• Germany had not yet completed her program of submarine building and thought it wise to temporize with the American government for a while longer.
• If he could temporize, he might be able to arrive at something more like a plan of action, to concentrate his efforts in one direction.
• He is driven to temporize with the evil thing he hates, because he fears, if he does not, that his household will be split, and thus the greater evil befall him.
• Again, therefore, there was no alternative for the Regent but to temporize.
• And so the Court, growing momentarily wise again under the spur of fear, preferred to temporize.
• Temporize with another woman? The very thought repelled him.
• I have therefore rather to consider how I shall suffer with my King, than whether I can temporize with him.
• Within the walls of the same prison, suffering the same restraint, and, like himself, the victim of a conscience which would not temporize, Dr.
• Upon the whole, he was almost as glad to temporize in the matter as Richard was himself.
• Still the Administration seemed inclined to temporize, so thoroughly was it possessed by the notion of conciliating the Border States.
• Ah, Walter, I little thought when I said I would temporize, how soon I should be called on to do it.
• Say nothing to-night, temporize with him when he comes for his answer in the morning, and then send for him at a quarter to ten, when he will be leaving the house with the others.

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