ĭ-kwĭv'ə-kā'shən
An evading; specif., an avoiding of a duty, question, etc. by deceit or cleverness
(Law) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
lie (related)
Something meant to deceive or mistakenly accepted as true:
directness (antonym)
The state or quality of being direct.
facing (antonym)
A covering of contrasting material to decorate or protect a building, brick wall, etc.
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(Countable) Something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.
An equivocal word or expression.
The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
(Pejorative) A word used to qualify a statement so as to make it potentially misleading.
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(Chiefly Brit.) Wordy, vague, or indecisive talk or writing
The definition of a double entendre is a word that can have two meanings, usually with one being risqué.
The quality of being equivocal.
clear (related)
(Carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
The quality of being evasive.
insincerity (related)
self-contradiction (related)
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arbitrariness (related)
incoherence (related)
pedantry (related)
obfuscation (related)
sophistry (related)
Find another word for equivocation. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for equivocation, like: evasion, quibbling, prevarication, lie, directness, meeting, facing, ambiguity, equivoque, euphemism and hedge.
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