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Example sentences for: equivocation

How can you use “equivocation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

My subject, wary by nature, had, after a year of elaborate equivocation, arrived at the point where he would grant me access to his papers--subject to his approval--and consent to be interviewed from time to time.
Clinton hung on, correctly calculating that a mixture of brazenness, legal equivocation and personal charm would see him through."
Synonyms for truth telling are formal and dull: candor , honesty , veridity . Those for conveying falsehoods are colorful and ebullient: equivocation , mythomania , casuistry , quackery , buncombe , cajolery , duplicity , perjury , bamboozlement , pettifoggery , sugarcoating , a crock , a con job , twaddle .
Analysts noted that this equivocation echoed earlier remarks at Clinton's televised joint press conference with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, in which Clinton said of the Tiananmen Square massacre, "I believe, and the American people believe, that the use of force and the tragic loss of life was wrong."
Clinton's equivocation on the test ban vote is the latest chapter in the struggle between his two personalities, Policy Bill and Political Bill.