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equivocal
e‧quiv‧o‧cal/ɪˈkwɪvəkəl/ adjective [date : 1500-1600; Language : Late Latin; Origin : aequivocus, from Latin aequi- (EQUI-) + vox 'voice'] 1. if you are equivocal, you are deliberately unclear in the way that you give information or your opinion SYN ambiguous: ▪ His answer was equivocal. ▪ She was rather equivocal about her work.
2. information that is equivocal is difficult to understand or explain because it contains different parts which suggest that different things are true: ▪ The results of the police enquiry were equivocal.
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And the Constitution is neither silent nor equivocal about who shall make laws which the President is to execute. ▪ But he also comments that the welfare analysis of restraints is quite equivocal. ▪ But the commission did clarify Gloucester's position in one area of the north where it had previously been somewhat equivocal. ▪ Her beauty, thought Jurnet, was, like everything else about Feldon St Awdry, equivocal. ▪ I could by now admit to myself, and in no equivocal terms, that I was totally in love. ▪ The research which has been conducted on their parenting and its outcomes for their children has often been flawed and equivocal. ▪ The story, hardly positive, is at best equivocal. ▪ There was nothing equivocal about him.
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