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Example sentences for: equivocation

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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.
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.
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."