Equivocation

n.

1.

The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead. There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. - Locke.

Noun	1.	equivocation - a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth Synonyms: evasion
	2.	equivocation - intentionally vague or ambiguous Synonyms: evasiveness, prevarication
	3.	equivocation - falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language Synonyms: tergiversation

ambiguity, ambivalence, amphibology, antinomy, apparent soundness, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, captiousness, casuistry, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circularity, circumvention, coloring, confabulation, counterword, defense mechanism, disingenuousness, distortion, dodge, dodging, double, double entendre, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equivocal, equivocality, equivocalness, equivoque, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasive reasoning, evasiveness, exaggeration, fallaciousness, fallacy, false coloring, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, fencing, fluctuation, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, getting around, hairsplitting, hedging, insincerity, irony, jesuitism, jesuitry, jink, logic-chopping, lying, misapplication, miscoloring, misconstruction, misrepresentation, misstatement, mystification, neutrality, nit-picking, nonintervention, noninvolvement, obfuscation, obscurantism, oscillation, oversubtlety, oxymoron, paltering, paradox, parrying, pendulation, perjury, perversion, pettifoggery, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, polysemant, portmanteau word, prevarication, prevention, pun, pussyfooting, quibbling, rationalization, refraining, self-contradiction, shifting, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffle, shuffling, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, slip, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, squinting construction, straining, subterfuge, subtlety, suppressio veri, tergiversation, the runaround, trichoschistism, vacillation, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, wavering, weasel word, weasel words, wobbling, zigzag

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