equivocating
present participle ofequivocate
equivocate
verb[I]
formaluk/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.keɪt/us/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.keɪt/tospeakin a way that isintentionallynotclearandconfusingto otherpeople,especiallytohidethetruth:
Sheaccusedtheministerof equivocating,claimingthat he haddeliberatelyavoidedtellingthepublichowbadtheproblemreally was.
Synonym
prevaricateformal
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- bury the ledeidiom
- candy coat
- candy coating
- candy-coated
- circumlocutory
- discursive
- euphemism
- hedge
- implicitly
- indirect
- indirectly
- lede
- mincing
- move offsomething/on (tosomething)
- obfuscation
- obscure
- sanitize
- sidestep
- veil
- wander
Examplesofequivocating
equivocating
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More importantly, when economists assign technical meanings to terms, they must also avoidequivocating.
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The issue we need to focus on here is not the tactility per se, but how its meanings and consequences reverberate throughequivocatingnetworks of power.
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No doubt this is because many governments, like our own, areequivocatingabout the desirability of the establishment of such a centre.
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Will he stopequivocatingand giving ambivalent answers?
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There is danger inequivocatingupon such subjects as that of partition.
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He now seems to beequivocatinga little.
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Will he now do that and stopequivocating?
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Will he stopequivocatingand say that he will support the call for suspension?
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Let us have none of thisequivocatingnonsense.
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That seems to me to be a singularlyequivocatingintervention.
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Whereas he had so far been unpredictable andequivocating, from this point on he remained firmly devoted to protecting his father's royal rights.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The script writers usedequivocatingphrases and words to evade the censorship.
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