equivocate
verb (used without object)
to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to mislead; prevaricate or hedge.
have equivocated
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present perfectof equivocate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Others seem to have equivocated as they waited to see whether Mr. Trump would again weather the controversy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2022
However, many large and influential nations, including some democracies with which the United States has strong relationships, have equivocated.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2022
Had she complained, he would have relied upon those touches, and have equivocated as he equivocated to Hill and Chandos.
From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Sir Leslie Stephen
I might have equivocated, or I might have evaded the truth in some slight degree, but I could not have told a lie.
From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Charles Major
A mind, with a spark of sensibility more than this woman possessed, could not have equivocated with such an interrogator, but her reply was, "She went in her own dress, my Lord."
From A Simple Story by G. L. Strachey
