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Definition of equivocation in English: equivocationnoun ɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃ(ə)nɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n mass nounThe use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication. I say this without equivocation Example sentencesExamples - Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
- I know there's been a lot of equivocation in this post.
- I'm over-reacting, of course, but it seems that such reportage has more to do with equivocation than articulation.
- I say without equivocation to the House that the assets test is a logical and necessary expression of any genuine commitment to the pursuit of a needs based welfare system.
- The excuses, explanations and equivocations are strictly for public consumption.
- It is at any rate more candid than the notoriously slimy postwar equivocations of Albert Speer.
- With official equivocation over animal experiments, it isn't surprising that plans for a world-class primate research lab at Cambridge have been axed.
- His reactions are relevant only because they seem to fit his career-long pattern of equivocation and calculation trying whenever possible to have it both ways.
- Look, in my view it's due to, if you like, a bit of equivocation about earnings growth for the course of the next 12 months.
- Inevitably the postelection media were full of tactful equivocations, brave faces and the search for silver linings.
- So I can say that without any equivocation whatsoever.
- But Congressional equivocation also reflects Congressional ambivalence.
- But in the meantime, I back the president's decision without any equivocation.
- As someone who's been struggling with NOT getting things done for over forty years, I can say without equivocation that Allen's methods really do work.
- No question has been raised as to any equivocation, ambiguity or uncertainty in the interpretation of that will.
- You read them and you see a man so cautiously calculating not to put a foot wrong that he envelops himself in a fog of caveats and equivocations.
- While compassion makes us feel the richer for our magnanimity, justice stirs up far more complex emotions of self-justification and equivocation.
- Their equivocations seem to have taken our mandarins by surprise.
- We'll publish pictures no one will publish, we'll show video no one will show, and we'll stay on it 24/7 until the truth penetrates through the lies and equivocations.
- Apparently, they didn't realize that the people who felt this way were looking for leadership on the issue not equivocation.
Synonyms prevarication, vagueness, qualification, ambiguity, uncertainty, ambivalence, indecision, doubt beating about the bush, evasion, dodging, hedging, fudging, doublespeak fencing, parrying vacillation, shilly-shallying, cavilling, wavering, quibbling, quibble temporizing, hesitation, stalling (for time), shuffling British humming and hawing informal pussyfooting (around), waffle, waffling, flannel, weasel words archaic paltering rare tergiversation
Definition of equivocation in US English: equivocationnouniˌkwivəˈkāSH(ə)nɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication. I say this without equivocation Example sentencesExamples - The excuses, explanations and equivocations are strictly for public consumption.
- I say without equivocation to the House that the assets test is a logical and necessary expression of any genuine commitment to the pursuit of a needs based welfare system.
- Inevitably the postelection media were full of tactful equivocations, brave faces and the search for silver linings.
- We'll publish pictures no one will publish, we'll show video no one will show, and we'll stay on it 24/7 until the truth penetrates through the lies and equivocations.
- It is at any rate more candid than the notoriously slimy postwar equivocations of Albert Speer.
- While compassion makes us feel the richer for our magnanimity, justice stirs up far more complex emotions of self-justification and equivocation.
- With official equivocation over animal experiments, it isn't surprising that plans for a world-class primate research lab at Cambridge have been axed.
- Their equivocations seem to have taken our mandarins by surprise.
- But in the meantime, I back the president's decision without any equivocation.
- I'm over-reacting, of course, but it seems that such reportage has more to do with equivocation than articulation.
- I know there's been a lot of equivocation in this post.
- As someone who's been struggling with NOT getting things done for over forty years, I can say without equivocation that Allen's methods really do work.
- You read them and you see a man so cautiously calculating not to put a foot wrong that he envelops himself in a fog of caveats and equivocations.
- Apparently, they didn't realize that the people who felt this way were looking for leadership on the issue not equivocation.
- So I can say that without any equivocation whatsoever.
- No question has been raised as to any equivocation, ambiguity or uncertainty in the interpretation of that will.
- Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
- Look, in my view it's due to, if you like, a bit of equivocation about earnings growth for the course of the next 12 months.
- His reactions are relevant only because they seem to fit his career-long pattern of equivocation and calculation trying whenever possible to have it both ways.
- But Congressional equivocation also reflects Congressional ambivalence.
Synonyms prevarication, vagueness, qualification, ambiguity, uncertainty, ambivalence, indecision, doubt
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