Equivocating
61hesitant — adj 1. pausing, halting, stopping, hesitating, hesitative; waiting, delaying, stalling, dragging, lagging, dallying; tardy, dilatory, deferring, postponing, procrastinating, procrastinative, cunctating, cunc tatious, cunctatory. 2. undecided,… …
62mealy-mouthed — adj 1. mincing, overnice, nice, overdelicate, delicate, overdainty, dainty, euphemistic, euphemistical, euphemious, affected; priggish, prim, proper, Sl. uptight; tartuffian, pious, moral, self righteous, sanctimonious, holier than thou,… …
63pettifogging — adj 1. trifling, niggling, frivolous, Inf. nitpicking, paltry, insubstantial, insignificant; circumlocutory, fencing, equivocating, sophistical, sophistic, casuistic, casuistical; hairsplitting, caviling, captious; finespun, over refined, subtle …
64uncertain — adj 1. unpredictable, unforeseeable; unaccountable, undeterminable, unascertainable, undivinable, incalculable; casual, haphazard, random, arbitrary, hit or miss; chance, fortuitous, serendipitous, aleatory, Inf. fluky. 2. ambivalent, undecided,… …
65unsettled — adj 1. unorganized, disorganized, disordered, disorderly, in disorder, in disarray, disarranged; deranged, discomposed, upset. 2. transient, itinerant, vagrant, Archaic. vagrom, vagabond, migratory, nomadic, wandering, roving. 3. uneasy, anxious …
66wavering — adj 1. vacillating, indecisive, irresolute, uncertain, undecided, unsure; ambivalent, of two minds, of mixed feelings; hesitant, wishy washy, uncommitted, holding back, dubious; fluctuating, oscillating, alternating, blowing hot and cold, unable… …
67equivocate — UK [ɪˈkwɪvəkeɪt] / US [ɪˈkwɪvəˌkeɪt] verb [intransitive] Word forms equivocate : present tense I/you/we/they equivocate he/she/it equivocates present participle equivocating past tense equivocated past participle equivocated formal to avoid… …
68Jesuit — Jes•u•it [[t]ˈdʒɛʒ u ɪt, yu ɪt, ˈdʒɛz [/t]] n. 1) rel a member of a Roman Catholic religious order for men (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534. 2) (often l.c.) a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person • Etymology:… …
69Jesuit — /ˈdʒɛzjuət/ (say jezyoohuht) noun 1. a member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534. 2. a crafty, intriguing, or equivocating person (in allusion to the methods ascribed to the order by its… …
70weasel word — /ˈwizəl wɜd/ (say weezuhl werd) noun an equivocating word or euphemism, robbing a statement of its force. {US English (1900s) …
