equivocateverb [ I ]
uk/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.keɪt/us/ɪˈkwɪv.ə.keɪt/formalto speak in a way that is intentionally not clear and confusing to other people, especially to hide the truth:
She accused the minister of equivocating, claiming that he had deliberately avoided telling the public how bad the problem really was.
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- evasive
- go (all) round the houses idiom
- go off on a tangent idiom
- implicit
- meander
- move off sth/on (to sth)
- obliquely
- parry
- sanitize
- sidestep
- skirt
- stray
- suggestion
- talk around sth
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
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equivocation
noun [ U ] uk/ɪˌkwɪv.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ɪˌkwɪv.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
He answered openly and honestly without hesitation or equivocation.