equivocation in English
I say this without equivocation
- tergiversation
- evasion
- prevaricationevasiveness
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1. Amphiboly; Equivocation; Quoting Out of Context
2. These actions must be condemned without equivocation.
3. 7 But Congressional equivocation also reflects Congressional ambivalence.
4. 3 These actions must be condemned without equivocation.
5. 8 Equivocation is Number 1 cousin to a lie.
6. 1 Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
7. 4 Why doesn't the President say so without equivocation?
8. He answered openly and honestly without hesitation or equivocation.
9. 2 He answered openly and honestly without hesitation or equivocation.
10. [ formal , disapproval ] Synonyms: sophistry , chicanery , equivocation , speciousness More Synonyms of Casuistry
11. 41 synonyms for Ambiguity: vagueness, doubt, puzzle, uncertainty, obscurity, enigma, equivocation
12. 9 This equivocation has carried through to his trade policy appointments.
13. 18 But they can affirm the principles of Mr Geithner's proposals equivocation.
14. 12 With caution, and with some equivocation, Bohr took a further step.
15. 5 But there was no equivocation on the issue of illegal immigration.
16. 10 You would wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.
17. 11 I do not suspect him of equivocation,(www.Sentencedict.com) still less of lying.
18. 13 Then she with a pretty equivocation went on: " Julia is about my height. "
19. The synonyms of Ambiguousness include are Ambiguity, Cloudiness, Doubtfulness, Equivocation, Imprecision, Inconclusiveness, Murkiness, Nebulousness, …
20. Synonyms for Amphiboly include equivocation, dissimulation, deception, duplicity, fallacy, misrepresentation, sophistry, spuriousness, amphibology and deceit
21. The 'story', if it can be called that, opens in mystery and proceeds through Ambiguity, equivocation, and vagueness.
22. 23 The fearful electorate found Reagan's outrage and can-do optimism more persuasive than the dour Brown's equivocation.
23. 14 The fearful electorate found Reagan's outrage and can-do optimism more persuasive than the dour Brown's equivocation.
24. Analogy, a technical, philosophical and theological term, commonly designates a kind of predication midway between univocation and equivocation
25. 6 It is probable that deliberate equivocation in respect of the intended sense of word forms is always to some extent odd.
26. Whereas equivocation involves the ambiguity of a single word, Amphiboly consists of the ambiguity of a complex expression (e.g., “I shot an elephant in my pajamas”)
27. Sometimes an arguer will deliberately, sneakily equivocate, often on words like "freedom," "justice," "rights," and so forth; other times, the equivocation is a mistake or misunderstanding.
28. 15 Sometimes an arguer will deliberately, sneakily equivocate, often on words like "freedom," "justice," "rights," and so forth; other times, the equivocation is a mistake or misunderstanding.
29. 16 Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, and eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.
30. 30 Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, and eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.
31. 17 One of my key objectives as a filmmaker is to renounce the piousness and equivocation of cinema in order to find a natural and rational approach to documentary and life.
32. ‘No more Circumlocution - just tell us, straight out: what are we supposed to do?’ ‘Pidgins may compensate for lack of vocabulary through Circumlocution.’ ‘Other common strategies used to save face for others include the use of Circumlocution and equivocation when criticism of …
33. This artifice is called equivocation or Amphibology; it consists in the use of words that have a natural double meaning; it supposes in him who resorts to it the right to conceal the truth, a right superior to that of the tormentor who questions him.
34. ‘This ancient Cistercian building, one of three in the Galloway area, was founded in 1273.’ ‘The galleries are reminiscent of Cistercian vaults in their awesome simplicity.’ ‘In taking up the Cistercian rule Merton assumes a way of life that, without equivocation, stands over against that of his former world.’
35. I shall show how analogy entered the logic texts in the context of equivocation; and I shah argue that the emphasis on analogy per Attributionem, the absence of the analogy of proportionality, and the development of a threefold classification of analogy ah throw considerable hght on Aquinas’s own discussion of analogy, particularly as found