Equivocation
nounid
49807·updated May 18, 2026verified
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
polysemous
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Entity Type
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- evasionevasivenessprevaricationtergiversation
- plural
- Equivocations
- possessive
- Equivocation's
- pluralpossessive
- Equivocations'
Framework definitions
- §1
- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- §2
- intentionally vague or ambiguous
- §3
- a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
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