equivocate
I
verb
avoid a straight answer, be ambiguous, be false, be unclear, be untruthful, be vague, deceive, disguise, dissemble, dissimulate, dodge, elude, evade, fence, hedge, lie, misguide, misinform, mislead, misrepresent, misstate, mystify, palter, parry, prevaricate, quibble, shift, shuffle, tergiversari, tergiversate
II
index
bicker, doubt (hesitate), evade (deceive), lie (falsify), misrepresent, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate, vacillate
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006