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1.
allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, especially with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous: an equivocal answer.
2.
of doubtful nature or character; questionable; dubious; suspicious: aliens of equivocal loyalty.
3.
of uncertain significance; not determined: an equivocal attitude.
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Equivocal
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Example Sentences
- But the evidence is at best equivocal.
- Such rampant indeterminacy is meant to sound embracing and supportive; instead, it reads like equivocal psychobabble.
- All answers are a bit equivocal, given the chronic onshore and offshore movement of publishing waves.
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equivocal
c.1600, from L.L. aequivocus (see equivocation). Related: Equivocally.
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