Example sentences for: equivocation

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

  • Clinton hung on, correctly calculating that a mixture of brazenness, legal equivocation and personal charm would see him through."

  • John's pedantic speech is quoted accurately but characterized as a "tirade," and Reich's answer is given as the mumbling equivocation that it actually was ("John, I will get back to you with all the information on it.

  • In most cases, the criteria for brain death determination by nuclear scan are clear cut, allowing a decision to be made without equivocation.

  • 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 .

  • Clinton's equivocation on the test ban vote is the latest chapter in the struggle between his two personalities, Policy Bill and Political Bill.


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