equivocate

How To Use equivocate In A Sentence

• Hoping he did not mean what I feared he meant, I attempted to equivocate. LORD OF THE SILENT
• You either love it or hate it, because this never equivocates.
• Oh, and while Clinton might have equivocated in the past voice now and then, Ronald Reagan gave the most famous example of Presidential passive voice in saying saying “mistakes were made” (about Iran-contra). The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
• When asked directly for her position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
• The Toshiba vice-president's rhetoric reminds the Chinese people of those Japanese politicians who equivocate over Japan's war crimes against China, " some pointed out.
• After kissing the subject, he just tapers off, equivocates, engages in euphemism.
• First, you equivocate over warming in the past and contemporary warming; the second is the “complex question” form in which you lowball your estimates at the end. Think Progress » Rep. Tom Perriello Tells ‘Spineless’ Senate To Get ‘Its Head Out Of Its Rear End’ And Confront Climate Crisis
• When asked directly for her position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
• How is it, then, that a man so unequivocal in his own yardstick for cultural superiority in all things, despite admitted unsavoury elements, suddenly equivocates like a fox when asked about censorship?
• Bishops obfuscate, cardinals equivocate and Church spokesmen prevaricate as the tide of media condemnation surges around them.