equivocation

How To Use equivocation In A Sentence

• The term implies something less than the ideal outcome of a war: reservation, equivocation, ambiguity, limitation—substitutes for victory. Between War and Peace
• The equivocation of its affirmation - if affirmation it be - is first among the defects that ought to disqualify this proposal.
• Now, of these four modes of misleading others by the tongue, when there is a _justa causa_ (supposing there can be such) -- a material lie, that is an untruth which is not a lie, an equivocation, an evasion, and silence, -- First, I have no difficulty whatever in recognizing as allowable the method of _silence_. Apologia pro Vita Sua
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Equivocation is first cousin to a lie. 
• 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.
• But Congressional equivocation also reflects Congressional ambivalence.