How To Use Equivocate In A Sentence
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Hoping he did not mean what I feared he meant, I attempted to equivocate.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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You either love it or hate it, because this never equivocates.
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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”
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When asked directly for her position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
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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.
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After kissing the subject, he just tapers off, equivocates, engages in euphemism.
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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
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When asked directly for her position on disarmament, the candidate only equivocated.
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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?
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Bishops obfuscate, cardinals equivocate and Church spokesmen prevaricate as the tide of media condemnation surges around them.
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They furrow their concerned brows and squint gravely towards the cameras in their field camo but all you hear is hedge and evade and dodge and divert and equivocate.
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In the Porter's scene in Act II of "Macbeth," equivocation comes in for a serious rhetorical battering: "Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales and against either scale; who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven.
A Blessing—Not a Curse
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I think that the fact they get a grand jury in there, they memorialize the people's testimony so that they can't backslide, they can't say, no, I didn't say that, they can't equivocate.
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I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard.
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If I had stuck with the word all and given Vorster a little room to equivocate, I might have left the diplomats a little happier and given Vorster less chance to demagogue the event for home consumption.
The Good Fight
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The law students squirmed and equivocated to avoid confronting my question.
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I am not one to equivocate the past so I will move on to current reading matter.
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The safe bet is that Democrats will again equivocate to avoid what would, by necessity, be the impeachment of the Vice President.
Waldo Jaquith - Scooter Libby off the hook.
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There is also another meaning of the word equivocate in popular usage.
Reasons to Believe -
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Some of his unfamiliar travels competence have been entirely motivated by a search for amicable progress, nonetheless his multiform hospitalizations abroad do raise a possibility which he hoped to equivocate broadside about his illness.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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Don't equivocate with me I want a straight answer to a straight question!
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Since novels and short stories inherently equivocate, unavoidably qualify and make ambiguous anything that might be straightforwardly "said," anyone who wants to "comment" on social life or engage in philosophical speculation would be well advised to do so more directly than fiction allows.
Principles of Literary Criticism
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Hoping he did not mean what I feared he meant, I attempted to equivocate.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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They want justice to be seen to be done, particularly where perpetrators remained quiet, equivocated or evaded the truth.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the center equivocated during the great battles for civil rights.
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Given the opportunity to allow blends of up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) in gasoline sold for cars and light trucks, EPA equivocated yet again.
Bob Dinneen: EPA's Indecision on Ethanol Blends: Retreating From a Clean Energy Future
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In the face of interrogation by members of the committee, you waffled, equivocated, lied, feigned lack of memory, and even remained silent, in the face of the most probing questions.
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In the Tbilisi and Vilnius cases, Gorbachev equivocated on how deeply he was involved, hesitating to either defend or denounce the attacks.
The Return
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I note that book publishing itself is becoming much more honest, truthful, unimpeachable, authentic, and precise about everything from numbers of books sold to the unvarnished, unexaggerated, unerring, and unaffected stories it tells as all who toil and sweat in this scrupulous business strive as best we can to maintain the veracious sheen-of-sham and hocus pocus so inherently attached like Superglue to our equivocated reputations for flimflam and fiddle-dee-dee.
Obscure Books, Part II - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
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Hoping he did not mean what I feared he meant, I attempted to equivocate.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Likewise equivocate AbsoluteWriters Water Cooler for info as good as inspiration.
TV Anime Guide for Nov 09 Updated 1 Nov 09
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Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides.
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When the department screwed up, Clifford never equivocated.
Len Levitt: The Daily News and the NYPD: Blinded by Love
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But it is not that that I spoke about," her mother equivocated.
Chapter 19
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It is my total albeit, naive-sounding, to nihilists masquerading as realists belief that there is remedy to this incident; the Iranian government can make this happen without appearing to have equivocated, and frankly, without appearing as anomalous in their imprisonment of artists, because again, history is far too rife with such instances, the world over.
Michael Vazquez: On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists
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We are fortunate that Chris Waters's Fred Trueman – a thorough and judicious book that does not equivocate over the great Yorkshire and England fast bowler's complexities and sometimes splenetic temperament – is not so tentative.
Fred Trueman: the good, the bad and the grouchy | Rob Bagchi
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Hyland testified he recommended a criminal investigation into the matter but says Rahn "equivocated" suggesting an internal investigation.
13WHAM: Top Stories
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He has equivocated, frustrating even ardent supporters like Tauzin; and when he has finally acted, it has been to prolong rather than shorten the telecom slump.
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To equivocate in the face of it would be an absolute abdication of intellectual responsibility.
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Bathers have been suggested to equivocate a H2O from Wednesday in to a weekend.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Canadians are fundamentally suspicious of any party that appears to equivocate about rights.
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Hoping he did not mean what I feared he meant, I attempted to equivocate.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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In on foot after a suggestion you contingency equivocate all haste.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Faith, here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven.
Of Thieves & Equivocators
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If he equivocates on the urgency to end the occupation, he's spirited in his insistence that the constitution will be Islamic.