12 example sentences using equivocal.
Equivocal used in a sentence
Equivocal in a sentence as an adjective
It seems that "inflation" has an equivocal meaning here.
Its strengths are few and equivocal; its flaws are unspeakable and legion.
It's hard to see whether Surface is going to succeed -- the reviews thus far are at best equivocal.
While the data on their efficacy is equivocal at best, I well tell you that they are useless.
One can argue that a failed test like that is equivocal, not a basis for casting out the underlying theory.
" and silence in response to anything but an unequivocal "Yes" to the question.
"The reply: "I haven't been privy to all the mails on this, but in the ones I saw, the responses were distinctly equivocal at best.
On the contrary, if the customer is told that the tip is included, but then half of that money goes to Uber itself - that's completely not-transparent and equivocal.
But can you imagine Linus doing an equivocal interview where he ducks the issue and uses "Indonesians want to use Mobile Firefox" as a justification?
" "African Americans" is an equivocal phrase in an analytical context because people use it to refer to ethnicity, when it actually refers to both nationality and ethnicity.
Probably the most typical course is this: a strongly positive pilot study is followed by larger studies with weaker positive results, then by studies with equivocal or negative results, then reports of serious side effects or other problems, and eventually by rejection of the treatment.
It's very hard to fight away that feeling, but I can see the trance people go into when I cut away the "truthful", disclaimer-ed, somewhat more equivocal and/or safe speech, and start talking like an expert, like I believe I'm an expert even if I don't believe it - I see people fall into a trance and I'm selling them.
Equivocal definitions
open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead; "an equivocal statement"; "the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates"; "the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness"; "popularity is an equivocal crown"; "an equivocal response to an embarrassing question"
See also: ambiguous
open to question; "aliens of equivocal loyalty"; "his conscience reproached him with the equivocal character of the union into which he had forced his son"-Anna Jameson
uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"