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equivocation

How to use equivocation in a sentence

Brian Cox plays his overbearing patriarch with booming conviction that prizes fury over equivocation.

Sovereigns, as well as gods, have sometimes made use of equivocation.

Who would venture to assert that Paul, or that anybody, could catch the trick of equivocation in such a service?

Anywhere, everywhere, he would have spoken his convictions without concealment, without equivocation.

THE BROKEN SWORDDENNISON WORTHINGTON

He is among those whose names have given rise to a word: "escobarderie" is a synonym for equivocation.

But this is no equivocation, it is evidence there, that subordinate laws exist and nothing more.

Stewart, in fact, really illustrated the equivocation between the two meanings of 'common sense.'

The attempt to conceal or evade this truth is the fatal source of all equivocation and confusion.

After another painful pause, therefore, she brought the matter to an issue by a question too direct to admit of equivocation.

THE DEERSLAYERJAMES FENIMORE COOPER

There is besides these, the doctrine of equivocation, which is a favorite shaft against the Society.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985