All equivocating synonyms
noun equivocating
- runaround — indecisive or evasive treatment, especially in response to a request: Ask for a raise and he'll give you the runaround.
- copout — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
- 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.
- jive — swing music or early jazz.
- elusion — The act of eluding.
- cop-out — an act or instance of copping out; reneging; evasion: The governor's platform was a cop-out.
- oblique — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
adjective equivocating
- casuistical — Casuistic.
- perjured — guilty of perjury.
- perjurious — the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry.
- prevaricative — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- elusory — That tends to elude.
- casuistic — of or having to do with casuistry or casuists
- mendacious — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- lying — the manner, relative position, or direction in which something lies: the lie of the patio, facing the water. Synonyms: place, location, site.
- shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.