Example sentences for: equivocation

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.


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