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equivocal: uncertain as a sign or indication; "the evidence from bacteriologic analysis was equivocal"; 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"; 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

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mealy-mouthed collapse

perjured collapse

mendacious collapse: intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"

unintelligible collapse: poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech"

borderline collapse: of questionable or minimal quality; "borderline grades"; "madj.allarginal writing ability"

untruthful collapse: not expressing or given to expressing the truth; "the statement given under oath was untruthful"; "an untruthful person"

weasel word collapse: an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion

indemonstrable collapse

unpersuaded collapse

unprovable collapse: not provable; "it was both unproved and unprovable"

mingled collapse

multiracial collapse: made up of or involving or acting on behalf of various races; "a multiracial society"; "multiracial government"

multinational collapse: involving or operating in several nations or nationalities; "multinational corporations"; "transnational terrorist networks"

multifaceted collapse

unconvinced collapse: lacking conviction; "I remain unconvinced"

doubting collapse: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener"

amphibious collapse: operating or living on land and in water; "amphibious vehicles"; "amphibious operations"; "amphibious troops"; "frogs are amphibious animals"; relating to or characteristic of animals of the class Amphibia

undecided collapse: not yet having made a commitment; "undecided voters"

paradoxical collapse: seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking"

miscellaneous collapse: constituting a grab-bag category; "the usual collection of miscellaneous expenses"

forsworn collapse

precarious collapse: affording no ease or reassurance; "a precarious truce"; not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage"; dangerously insecure; "a precarious footing on the ladder"

hesitating collapse

agnostic collapse: a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist); someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something; uncertain of all claims to knowledge; of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism

tenebrous collapse: dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"

composite collapse: considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers; consisting of separate interconnected parts; of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae

dusky collapse: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

unforeseeable collapse: incapable of being anticipated; "unforeseeable consequences"

dicey collapse

scrambled collapse: thrown together in a disorderly fashion; "a scrambled plan of action"

ambivalent collapse: uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow; "was ambivalent about having children"

skeptical collapse

ironic collapse: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"

double entendre collapse: an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate

pun collapse: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"; make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"

lying collapse: the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

cryptic collapse: having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"; of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands"

blended collapse: combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable

fishy collapse: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior"; of or relating to or resembling fish; "the soup had a fishy smell"

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