Equivocating
41evasion — Synonyms and related words: abstention, airtight secrecy, anythingarianism, artifice, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, break, breakout, buck passing, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, close secrecy,… …
42evasive — Synonyms and related words: ambiguous, amoral, bickering, cagey, captious, casuistic, caviling, choplogic, close, closemouthed, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, devious, discreet, dishonest,… …
43mealy-mouthed — Synonyms and related words: ambiguous, artful, circumlocutory, deceitful, equivocal, equivocating, euphemistic, hesitant, hypocritical, indirect, mincing, oily, periphrastic, reluctant, reticent, roundabout, slick, unctuous, vague …
44mendacious — Synonyms and related words: deceitful, dishonest, equivocal, equivocating, erroneous, fallacious, FALSE, fibbing, forsworn, knavish, lying, paltering, perjured, prevaricating, roguish, shifty, spurious, truthless, untruthful, unveracious, wrong …
45shifty — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, adrift, afloat, alternating, ambidextrous, amoral, amorphous, arch, artful, astute, back door, backstairs, bent, cagey, calculating, canny, capricious, changeable, changeful,… …
46shuffling — Synonyms and related words: Micawberish, adrift, afloat, alternating, alternation, ambling, amorphous, backward, bickering, boggling, capricious, captious, captiousness, cautious, caviling, changeable, changeful, chicane, chicanery, choplogic,… …
47oscillation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Fluctuation Nouns oscillation; vibration, libration, nutation, undulation; pulsation, pulse; fluctuation, vacillation, wavering; wave, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance; alternation, reciprocation;… …
48wishy-washy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. washed out, anemic, colorless; weak kneed or willed, spineless, irresolute, feeble, vacillating. See insipidity, weakness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Watery] Syn. insipid, thin, diluted, weak,… …
49lying — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In the act of lying] Syn. untruthful, falsifying, prevaricating, swearing falsely, committing perjury, fibbing, misstating, misrepresenting, inventing, dissimuLating, equivocating, malingering. Ant. frank*, truthful,… …
50equivocate — early 15c., equivocaten, from M.L. equivocatus, pp. of equivocare to call by the same name, from L.L. aequivocus (see EQUIVOCATION (Cf. equivocation)). Related: Equivocated; equivocating …
