Thesaurus / equivocating
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Thou art equivocating; 'twill be the worse for thee, that thou triflest with the Council—who are these agents?
THE BRAVOJ. FENIMORE COOPERIt is all this equivocating, tantalizing mystery that I can neither abide or understand.
MARY SEAHAM, VOLUME 2 OF 3ELIZABETH CAROLINE GREYBut the equivocating witness soon discovers that his falsehood is hunted out of its recesses with an unsparing determination.
SKETCHES AND STUDIESNATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThe manufacturer, who encountered the look his mother cast on him at that moment, was on the point of equivocating.
THE DOWNFALLEMILE ZOLABut Robert Darnley was not cut out for shuffling and equivocating.
PENELOPE: OR, LOVE'S LABOUR LOST, VOL. 2 (OF 3)WILLIAM PITT SCARGILLAfter some equivocating, he confessed that he really was Matthias.
HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, VOLUME 2JOSEPH SMITHNothing could be more infamous and of worse tendency than this practice of equivocating in the most sacred of all obligations.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.II.TOBIAS SMOLLETTHow easy is the verbal assent,--the equivocating accent,--the hesitating air!
JANE TALBOTCHARLES BROCKDEN BROWNA second large order of equivocating appearances will arise,—not as to magnitude, but as to motion.
NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERSTHOMAS DE QUINCEY"I do think they are against him now, although they may not be so later on," replied he, equivocating with himself a little.
THE CANDIDATEJOSEPH ALEXANDER ALTSHELERWORDS RELATED TO EQUIVOCATING
- cagey
- collusive
- conniving
- contriving
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- devious
- dishonest
- dodging
- duplicitous
- elusive
- equivocating
- evasive
- fly-by-night
- foxy
- fraudulent
- furtive
- insidious
- lying
- mendacious
- prevaricative
- prevaricatory
- roguish
- scheming
- shady
- shrewd
- shuffling
- slick
- slimy
- slippery
- sly
- sneaky
- treacherous
- tricky
- underhand
- unhonest
- unprincipled
- untruthful
- wily
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