Crossword-Solution: EQUIVOCATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Equivocate | a. | To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity. |
| Equivocate | v. t. | To render equivocal or ambiguous. |
We have 47 clues for the answer “EQUIVOCATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Use double talk | 1 answer |
| Use ambiguous language | 1 answer |
| Speaks ambiguously | 1 answer |
| Credo, part 2 | 1 answer |
| Be a weasel | 1 answer |
| USE ambiguous words to conceal truth | 2 answers |
| perjure | 3 answers |
| Mince words? | 4 answers |
| play upon words | 9 answers |
| palter | 15 answers |
| Waffle | 19 answers |
| Go back (on) | 29 answers |
| tergiversate | 30 answers |
| recidivate | 31 answers |
| Misrepresent | 31 answers |
| Prevaricate | 34 answers |
| apostatise | 34 answers |
| misstate | 36 answers |
| Renege | 39 answers |
| cavil | 42 answers |
| Side-step | 43 answers |
| dissemble | 44 answers |
| Shun | 45 answers |
| Pussyfoot | 48 answers |
| Backslide | 48 answers |
| Fib | 49 answers |
| Quibble | 50 answers |
| Evade | 51 answers |
| Elude | 53 answers |
| Weasel | 54 answers |
| Falsify | 55 answers |
| Pretend | 56 answers |
| Fence | 56 answers |
| Dodge | 57 answers |
| Avoid | 60 answers |
| shuffle | 60 answers |
| Ditch | 60 answers |
| Hedge-___ | 62 answers |
| Withdraw | 68 answers |
| Exaggerate | 69 answers |
| Manufacture | 79 answers |
| Desert | 80 answers |
| Duck | 80 answers |
| Escape | 87 answers |
| Turn | 90 answers |
| ABANDON ___! | 91 answers |
| Lie | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMCEZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EQUIVOCATE (5)
Still, I am helpless, I cannot move, until I am assured that my daughter's reasons are such as a father need not underline." "Does the lady, perchance, equivocate?" "I have not seen her this morning; I rise late.
Observe that the precepts of the Koran can be followed everywhere." I did not know how to answer, and I would not equivocate.
Observe that the precepts of the Koran can be followed everywhere.” I did not know how to answer, and I would not equivocate.
When from distant considerations men resolve upon any thing to which they have no liking, or perhaps an averseness, they are perpetually finding out evasions and excuses, which need never be wanting, if people look for them: and they equivocate with themselves in the plainest cases in the world.
The secret, unseen, but irrefragable bond of habitual intercourse holds them together, even when their perverse and litigious nature sets them to equivocate, scuffle, and fight, about the terms of their written obligations.
Quotes with EQUIVOCATE (3)
He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.
It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as to my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cotton ball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified. A few quick cuts and cunt becomes can't, cock turns into back, c…
They say you shouldn't equivocate; They say you should be direct and firm. They say that's "no" is one-word sentence. They say to use it with force.. They say you should never elaborate on "no".
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Onion.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1979–2010).