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equivocations
noun
(e-quiv-o-ca-tion)
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
Synonyms:
evasion
,
equivocations
noun
(e-quiv-o-ca-tion)
intentionally vague or ambiguous
Synonyms:
evasiveness
,
prevarication
,
equivocations
noun
(e-quiv-o-ca-tion)
falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
Synonyms:
tergiversation
,
Words Related to
equivocations
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prevarication
,
evasiveness
,
evasion
,
tergiversation
,
exaggerations
,
circumlocutions
,
mendacities
,
evasions
,
truths
,
speciousness
,
refutations
,
hyperboles
,
sophistries
,
dissembling
,
prevaricator
,
ineffectuality
,
vacillation
,
doubletalk
,
cavils
,
denials
,
doublespeak
,
pronouncements
,
tautologies
,
duplicity
,
misspeaking
,
deceptions
,
incuriosity
,
dubiousness
,
dogmatist
,
justifications
,
hairsplitting
,
character assassination
,
revisionism
,
piousness
,
illogic
,
hypocrisies
,
incoherency
,
casuistry
,
incredulousness
,
demurral
,
subterfuges
,
theocrat
,
extenuation
,
doubleness
,
wishfulness
,
clintonian
,
phantasms
,
infelicities
,
disavowal
,
alarums
,
rightness
,
cravenness
,
jeremiads
,
lugubriousness
,
rigidness
,
immoderation
,
obtuseness
,
monicagate
,
soliloquies
,
stances
,
insubstantiality
,
explications
,
ambiguousness
,
disingenuity
,
centrism
,
wrongness
,
inarticulateness
,
temporizing
,
tendentiousness
,
posturing
,
charlatanry
,
inconstancy
,
theologizing
,
inuendo
,
persiflage
,
certitude
,
feints
,
sophistical
,
quibbles
,
attitudinizing
,
blamelessness
,
reasonings
,
idee fixe
,
brownism
,
bloodthirstiness
,
fulminations
,
timidity
,
inane
,
lunacies
,
delphic
,
bluster
,
moralizing
,
nefariousness
,
denunciations
,
presuppositions
,
deviousness
,
rhetoric
,
expostulation
,
preachment
,
presumptuousness
,
equivocations
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