0 to speak in a way that is intentionally not clear and confusing to other people, especially to hide the truth:
More importantly, when economists assign technical meanings to terms, they must also avoid equivocating.
In discussions of female fans, he equivocates; and here the essentialist cracks in his argument begin to show.
Hunt thinks my defence equivocates on ' acquire ', a term which can mean either to come to have or to be dependent upon.
Rawls equivocates on whether the fact of reasonable pluralism is true of all societies or just liberal democratic ones.
There are situations where, rather than trying to force an exact match with a fine-grained sense, it may be more prudent to equivocate by choosing a less-specific cluster of senses.
Participants used filled pauses, surprisingly, in the condition within which they equivocated the least, although they produced other dysfluencies (combined) within conditions where they equivocated the most.
The issue we need to focus on here is not the tactility per se, but how its meanings and consequences reverberate through equivocating networks of power.
We do not have time to equivocate or pontificate about where competence may lie.
