Sample Sentences for
equivocate
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    Israel's ambassador to Washington inadvertently muddied the waters when he refused to state categorically and without equivocation that Gabriel Allon was indeed no longer among the living.  (source)
    equivocation = ambiguity
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    She knows she's equivocating.  (source)
    equivocating = avoiding expression an opinion or decision
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    His final statements, however, were concise and without equivocation.  (source)
    equivocation = ambiguity
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    The result is a quaint equivocation, worth observing carefully because it pictures the state of mind of a man living half in one economy and half in another and wishing to do justice to every interest.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The feeling was that if he, George Washington, who had so much, was willing to risk "his all," however daunting the odds, then who were they to equivocate.  (source)
    equivocate = be noncommittal
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    "I did not come to make judgments," he equivocated.  (source)
    equivocated = avoided expressing an opinion
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    here's an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God's sake,  (source)
    equivocator = liar (someone who speaks in a misleading, ambiguous manner)
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    His equivocations with himself about the death of Raffles had sustained the conception of an Omniscience whom he prayed to, yet he had a terror upon him which would not let him expose them to judgment by a full confession to his wife: the acts which he had washed and diluted with inward argument and motive, and for which it seemed comparatively easy to win invisible pardon—what name would she call them by?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans.†  (source)
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    it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to: in conclusion, equivocates him  (source)
    equivocates = sometimes favors and sometime disfavors
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    It was an equivocation.†  (source)
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    He may want more time for his decision—he may believe there is something to be said for both sides—he may feel that a slight amendment could remove all difficulties—but when that roll is called he cannot hide, he cannot equivocate, he cannot delay—and he senses that his constituency, like the Raven in Poe's poem, is perched there on his Senate desk, croaking "Nevermore" as he casts the vote that stakes his political future.†  (source)
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    Equivocated.†  (source)
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