Equivocation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The use of equivocal language.
  • n. An equivocal statement or expression.
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  • n. A logical fallacy resulting from the use of multiple meanings of a single expression.
  • n. The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, possibly intentionally and with the aim of misleading.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In logic, a fallacy depending upon the double signification of some one word: distinguished from amphibology, which depends upon the doubtful interpretation of a whole sentence.
  • n. Ambiguity of speech; specifically, the use, with a view to mislead, of words or expressions susceptible of a double signification; prevarication.
  • n. Synonyms Prevarication, etc. (see evasion); shuffling, quibbling, quibble, equivoke.
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  • n. intentionally vague or ambiguous
  • n. a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
  • n. falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    untruthfulness    equivocalness    ambiguity    misrepresentation    falsification   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shuffling    prevaricate    evasion    guibbling    ambiguity   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    chicane    procrastination    prevarication    tergiversation    subterfuge   
     
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