Sample Sentences for
equivocal
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    I learned, moreover, at intervals, and through broken and equivocal hints, another singular feature of his mental condition.  (source)
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    [Laughing equivocally.]  (source)
    equivocally = with meaning that is not clear
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    It's difficult for me to believe I have power over him, of any sort, but I do; although it's of an equivocal kind.†  (source)
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    He knew how to press them subtly on equivocal points, and how to apologize without a word when he had overstepped.†  (source)
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    ...leaving me with no unequivocal answers about cheerleaders and their diet aids or...  (source)
    unequivocal = unmistakably clear
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unequivocal means not and reverses the meaning of equivocal. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    But the cause of death--unequivocally--was drowning.  (source)
    unequivocally = clearly and unmistakably
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unequivocally means not and reverses the meaning of equivocally. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    What he meant by "everything would be fine" was not exactly clear— it became quite evident that his condition tended to create ambiguities, and he expressed himself equivocally more than once, seemed both to know and not to know, and at one point, apparently overcome by a wave of approaching devastation, he shook his head almost in remorse and declared that he had never felt this bad, never in all his life.†  (source)
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    A day or two afterwards, chancing in the evening promenade on a gun deck to pass Billy, he offered a flying word of good-fellowship, as it were, which by its unexpectedness, and equivocalness under the circumstances so embarrassed Billy that he knew not how to respond to it, and let it go unnoticed.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story.†  (source)
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    The sergeant demanded attention with an unequivocal gesture.†  (source)
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    He was the one person I could count on, unequivocally, to say exactly what he meant, no hedging around.  (source)
    unequivocally = without ambiguity (in a completely clear manner)
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    Questions which Clyde could do no more than ignore, or if not, answer as equivocally or evasively or indifferently as possible.†  (source)
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    Elizabeth saw directly that her father had not the smallest intention of yielding; but his answers were at the same time so vague and equivocal, that her mother, though often disheartened, had never yet despaired of succeeding at last.†  (source)
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