Associations to the word «Equivocate»

Wiktionary

EQUIVOCATE, verb. (intransitive) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.
EQUIVOCATE, verb. To render equivocal or ambiguous.

Dictionary definition

EQUIVOCATE, verb. Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin