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equivocation: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; intentionally vague or ambiguous

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tergiversation collapse

antinomy collapse: a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable

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

parrying collapse

fencing collapse: the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)

gobbledegook collapse

misrepresentation collapse: a misleading falsehood

shunning collapse

logic chopping collapse

falsification collapse: the act of determining that something is false; the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting; a willful perversion of facts

perjury collapse: criminal offense of making false statements under oath

pettifoggery collapse

oscillation collapse: (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean; the process of oscillating between states

dodging collapse

elusion collapse

runaround collapse

shilly shallying collapse

oxymoron collapse: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

paradox collapse: (logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"

pussyfooting collapse

specious reasoning collapse

mendacity collapse: the tendency to be untruthful

nit picking collapse

self-contradiction collapse: contradicting yourself

plausibility collapse: apparent validity

fib collapse: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"; tell a relatively insignificant lie; "Fibbing is not acceptable, even if you don't call it lying"

refraining collapse

vacillation collapse

misstatement collapse: a statement that contains a mistake

nonintervention collapse: a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes

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"

quibbling collapse

forestalling collapse

opacity collapse: the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light; incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning; the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation

irony collapse: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

sophism collapse: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

ambivalence collapse: mixed feelings or emotions

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