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1. A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
   - evasion
    
2. Intentionally vague or ambiguous
   "the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as equivocation";
   - prevarication, evasiveness
    
3. Falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
   - tergiversation

Derived forms: equivocations

Type of: ambiguity, deceit, deception, equivocalness, falsification, misrepresentation, untruthfulness

Encyclopedia: Equivocation