But diplomatic ambiguity that translates into equivocation and weakness is not helpful at all.
Is the U.S. Enabling Putin's Invasion?|Christopher Dickey|August 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The equivocation leads Weisberg to shift the meaning of flexibility.
Liberals Need to Learn to Say No|Bernhard Schlink|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Romney was so proud of his pro-choice pedigree that he even tweaked his Senate opponent, Democrat Ted Kennedy, for equivocation.
Is Romney the Next Kerry?|Matt Latimer|October 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Yeah, yeah, Chris said; or something like that—not buying my equivocation and pressing on with the subjunctive.
Would My Father Have Voted for Obama?|Christopher Buckley|May 12, 2009|DAILY BEAST
There is besides these, the doctrine of equivocation, which is a favorite shaft against the Society.
The Jesuits, 1534-1921|Thomas J. Campbell
But this is no equivocation, it is evidence there, that subordinate laws exist and nothing more.
Epidemics Examined and Explained: or, Living Germs Proved by Analogy to be a Source of Disease|John Grove
Falsehoods were easily invented, and might lead her far away from my true condition; but I was wholly unused to equivocation.
Arthur Mervyn|Charles Brockden Brown
And when Lady Helen herself encouraged the boy in his disobedience, and showed him an example of equivocation, what could be said?
Home Influence|Grace Aguilar
He had a keen sense of the difficulty with which a debtor escapes subterfuge and equivocation—forms, slightly disguised, of lying.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 5. (of 7): Persia|George Rawlinson
British Dictionary definitions for equivocation
equivocation
/ (ɪˌkwɪvəˈkeɪʃən) /
noun
the act or an instance of equivocating
logica fallacy based on the use of the same term in different senses, esp as the middle term of a syllogism, as the badger lives in the bank, and the bank is in the High Street, so the badger lives in the High Street