Intentionally vague or ambiguous.
A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.
Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language.
The information that is lost during transmission over a channel between an information source (sender) and an information sink (receiver)
1 But the long years of European equivocation and denial have proved calamitous.
2 Directness, he said, was required in place of equivocation based on delicacy.
3 Twelves, taking this equivocation as weakness, eyed him with cool, contemptuous pity.
4 That equivocation and obduracy are being egged on by venomous Irish revisionism.
5 He was prepared for equivocation , possibly for denial, but not for attack.
6 Sensing this was a woman who did not fancy equivocation , I did.
7 Mr Andrews's equivocation describes the current state of Irish neutrality in a nutshell.
8 Hence it is clear that the objection rests on an equivocation .
9 The equivocation favoured by such language at once begins to appear.
10 This equivocation within the conservative community is manifesting itself in a slugfest online.
11 It was possible, perhaps, to escape the confession of the truth by equivocation .
12 Might was right, without equivocation or disguise, in that heroic and chivalrous age.
13 If I suffocated my stepmother, her own polite equivocation would justify the act.
14 Her enthusiasm was so great that it reduced him to something like equivocation .
15 There is nothing which I more detest than equivocation and mystery.
16 No insinuation is too base, no equivocation too mean, no artifice too paltry.
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