Thesaurus / equivocate
FEEDBACKHow to use equivocate in a sentence
"I won't equivocate," responded the head of the Falkins family with blunt directness.
THE CODE OF THE MOUNTAINSCHARLES NEVILLE BUCKAt all events, for some reason, the ex-Attorney-General was afraid to accept this opportunity to equivocate.
THE JUDICIAL MURDER OF MARY E. SURRATTDAVID MILLER DEWITTI do not equivocate when I say that love is instinctive, and that the latter-day expression of love is artificial.
THE KEMPTON-WACE LETTERSJACK LONDONWhen one thus remains in the clouds, he need not fear to equivocate.
WHAT IS PROPERTY?P. J. PROUDHONBut her stainless heart was too proud in virtue to palter and equivocate with circumstances.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 13, NO. 361, SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE (1829)VARIOUSMr. North did not equivocate; he never lied when the truth would answer the purpose equally well.
EMPIRE BUILDERSFRANCIS LYNDENo real business man will take advantage of a customer's ignorance, nor equivocate nor misrepresent.
BURROUGHS' ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ASTOUNDING FACTS AND USEFUL INFORMATION, 1889BARKHAM BURROUGHSBeaten in the open field, the church began to equivocate, to evade, and to give new meanings to inspired words.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, VOL. 11 (OF 12)ROBERT G. INGERSOLL"A woman who could do such a deed would be the last to thrill, equivocate, and faint," I retorted.
THE LEAVENWORTH CASEANNA KATHERINE GREENIt has been said the name was given that topers might equivocate and say that they “frequently go to church.”
THE HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDSJACOB LARWOODWORDS RELATED TO EQUIVOCATE
- arrest
- avoid the issue
- beat around the bush
- brake
- check
- die
- drag one's feet
- equivocate
- fence
- filibuster
- halt
- hamper
- hedge
- hinder
- hold off
- interrupt
- not move
- play for time
- postpone
- prevaricate
- put off
- quibble
- shut down
- slow
- slow down
- stand
- stand off
- stand still
- stay
- still
- stonewall
- stop
- suspend
- take one's time
- tarry
- temporize
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