tergiversate

To use evasions or ambiguities; equivocate.

To change sides; apostatize.

To shift; practise evasion; make use of shifts or subterfuges.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

To evade, to equivocate using subterfuge; to deliberately obfuscate.

To change sides or affiliation; to apostatize.

abandon one’s beliefs or allegiances

be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information