equivocal
open to more than one interpretation; deliberately ambiguous
Word origin: From Latin aequus, equal, plus vox, voice, hence of equal voices.
Equivocal in a sentence
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His equivocal reply left everyone guessing at his true position.
The experiment yielded equivocal results that supported neither hypothesis decisively.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “equivocal” well
Equivocal means open to more than one reading, sometimes by accident and sometimes by design. Do not confuse it with unequivocal, its near-opposite, meaning perfectly clear.
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