单词 | equivocation |
释义 | equivocationnoun equiv·o·ca·tion i-ˌkwi-və-ˈkā-shən plural equivocations : deliberate evasiveness in wording : the use of ambiguous or equivocal language Like any good teacher, he does his best to answer with clarity and minimal equivocation. Let me say now without equivocation or need for reflection: Devils tower is the most amazing sight of my entire trip. : an ambiguous or deliberately evasive statement His answers were filled with evasions and equivocations. Increasingly, the inaccuracies, the elisions, and the equivocations were viewed as deliberate acts of subversion, efforts to assert some control over the past instead of simply recording it. equivocation noun1 as in ambiguity deliberate evasion in speech your equivocation when asked where you were last night is not reassuring Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance
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2 as in ambiguousness the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning the equivocation of the last line of the poem, "That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" Synonyms & Similar Words
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