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Meanings of equivocate in English

Portuguese
pare de enrolar
Catalan
tergiversar

Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.

pare de enrolar
Usage of equivocate in English
1
I did not know how to answer, and I would not equivocate.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
2
Three other ministers agreed with him except that they did not equivocate.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
3
But she did not dare to equivocate as to her precarious state.
East Lynne
4
But never for a moment did he falter, or waver, or equivocate.
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
5
To falter, or equivocate, or dissemble to this woman would be wicked.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
6
Why suffer that lip I have kissed a thousand times to equivocate?
The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories
7
When one thus remains in the clouds, he need not fear to equivocate.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of ...
8
The ruling party -my father's party -continues to equivocate.
The Guardian
9
We have been brought up badly, the Queen having taught us to equivocate.'
The Works of Max Beerbohm
10
She made clear she would not equivocate on the border.
The Guardian
11
I had not the time to equivocate with smaller coins.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
12
He would not equivocate and he would not be silent.
Starr King in California
13
You want the moles, Boris Illyich, so let's not equivocate.
The bourne objective
14
It was useless to deny it, equivocate, or seek subterfuges.
The Lerouge Case
15
Nor could he equivocate, for he considered equivocation little better than a direct falsehood.
The Home Mission
16
Do you think I always equivocate? There was a thread of hurt in the question.
Funeral in Blue
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Equivocate through the time