All equivocate synonyms

verb equivocate

• prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
• beat around the bush — to talk around a subject without getting to the point
• vacillate — to waver in mind or opinion; be indecisive or irresolute: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.
• quibble — an instance of the use of ambiguous, prevaricating, or irrelevant language or arguments to evade a point at issue.
• fudge — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
• cavil — If you say that someone cavils at something, you mean that they make criticisms of it that you think are unimportant or unnecessary.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• elude — Evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
• falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
• fib — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
• flip-flop — Informal. a sudden or unexpected reversal, as of direction, belief, attitude, or policy.
• hedge — a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary; hedgerow: small fields separated by hedges.
• jive — swing music or early jazz.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• palter — to talk or act insincerely or deceitfully; lie or use trickery.
• parry — to ward off (a thrust, stroke, weapon, etc.), as in fencing; avert.
• pussyfoot — to go or move in a stealthy or cautious manner.
• shuck — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
• shuffle — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
• sidestep — to step to one side.
• stonewall — to engage in stonewalling.
• tergiversate — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
• waffle — waffling language.
• beg the question — If you say that something begs a particular question, you mean that it makes people want to ask that question; some people consider that this use is incorrect.
• blow hot and cold — to vacillate
• cop a plea — to plead guilty to a criminal charge, esp. so as to get a lighter sentence
• cop out — If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
• cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
• double-talk — speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter.
• hem and haw — the utterance or sound of “hem.”.
• mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
• pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
• run around — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
• sit on the fence — to be unable or unwilling to commit oneself
• weasel — any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.