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volte–face
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Synonyms and Antonyms of VOLTE-FACE
a changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact opposite <the novelist's unexpected volte-face from experimentalism to traditional narrative form>
Related Words bait and switch, switcheroo; denial, disaffirmance, disavowal, disownment, recantation, renunciation, repudiation, retraction; reconsideration, retreat, second thought; hesitation, indecision, irresolution, shilly-shallying, vacillation, wavering, wobbling (also wabbling)
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