Equivocates

Intelligent Design also equivocates and makes vacuous arguments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Through the defamation of a symbolic movement figurehead, they can defecate on an entire movement, thus rendering it impotent if the base equivocates to abandon the accused. ❋ Matthis Chiroux (2011)

Mr. Shapiro has convinced me that it's the key to the play—the weird sisters equivocate with Macbeth and Banquo, promising them mutually exclusive things; Macbeth equivocates in his not-the-whole-truth letter to Lady Macbeth. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

She equivocates with her guests, as does Lady Macduff when she teases her son, and even the virtuous Malcolm purposely misleads Macduff. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

That the same individual might also blush to lie to a League marshal only equivocates the sense. ❋ M_francis (2009)

Every attempt at mediation, including a recently flawed approach by the GCC Gulf Co-operation Council, has failed, as Saleh stalls and equivocates on public pledges, hoping to somehow survive in power. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But no matter how much you dress it up, this is still a song that morally equivocates about domestic violence. ❋ Allison Stewart (2011)

Because each week, he shows what many knew all along -- that he's mediocre at the job, equivocates about the truth, makes back-room deals, and never met a lame photo or press op he didn't like. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An opposition party that fabricates to scare, and equivocates to mislead the American people. ❋ Jim Worth (2010)

ID generally equivocates on the meaning of this explanatory concept ( "intelligence" or "intelligent cause" or "teleology"), and so it isn't possible to evaluate the strength of the evidence for its claims. ❋ Unknown (2008)

No, my beef about ID is that it equivocates on the meaning of "intelligence". ❋ Unknown (2008)

(Interestingly, Dee Dee equivocates in the film, as it appears he often did when pressed.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Times story never even hints that Brown had anything to gain from the deal, even if he had had authority over it, and completely equivocates on the broader issue of whether or not it's been a good deal for Oakland. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Leonhardt equivocates on the question of longer-term spending versus austerity, writing, "You can find good evidence to support either one." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bill Roe, acting CEO of USA Track & Field, also equivocates: We've got some newcomers in international competition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Should there be a system where it updates/equivocates ticket prices from that year to show a more accurate comparison between how much these movies made? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The [lawyer] efficiently equivocated [fluently] and eschewed [the question]. ❋ Larstait (2003)

The vocabulary list had many equivocal words, making [the test] very confusing. He [purposefully] used a equivocal word so I would be left [questioning] what he meant. ❋ <3RAWR<3 (2009)

She equivocated so well she [managed] to escape [the scene] with no [repercussions]. ❋ WhyAmIAroused (2021)