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equivocate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | beat around the bush, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate |
| Type of | misinform, mislead |
| Derivation | equivocation, equivocator |
Examples of equivocate
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The high-priced pulse taker never tried to equivocate when bearing bad news.
From the time.com
No, you equivocate here and there but are still plainly in the Obama camp.
From the economist.com
The Florida Highway Patrol, which investigated the accident, did not equivocate, however.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Mr. Nelson does not equivocate in his opposition to throwing public money at private schools.
From the thestate.com
Eight propositions are obtained from three assertions that equivocate existence of an object.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The second is to somehow equivocate and attack the perception itself.
From the dailyherald.com
Democrats equivocate on trade in an irreversibly global economy.
From the businessweek.com
Officials then started to equivocate about whether the government would even buy the building.
From the nbr.co.nz
When it comes to core conservative principles, don't cave, don't equivocate, and don't sell out your base.
From the forbes.com
- Beat around the bush: be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information
- (equivocation) evasion: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
- (equivocation) intentionally vague or ambiguous
- Equivocation is classified as both a formal and informal logical fallacy. It is the misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense (by glossing over which meaning is intended at a particular time). It generally occurs with polysemic words.
- (Equivocation (information theory)) In information theory, the conditional entropy (or equivocation) quantifies the remaining entropy (i.e. uncertainty) of a random variable given that the value of another random variable is known. ...
- (Equivocation (magic)) Equivocation is a technique by which a magician appears to have intended a particular outcome, when in actuality the outcome is one of several alternative outcomes.Also called a "multiple-out"
- (Equivocation (play)) Equivocation, written by Bill Cain, is a play about telling the truth in difficult times. ...
- To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity; To render equivocal or ambiguous
- (equivocation) A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression; The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading
