| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Informal. The use or an instance of equivocal language: ambiguity, equivocation, equivoque, euphemism, hedge, prevarication, shuffle, tergiversation, weasel word. See CLEAR. | | VERB: | Informal. To use evasive or deliberately vague language: equivocate, euphemize, hedge, shuffle, tergiversate, weasel. Informal : pussyfoot. Idioms: beat about (or around) the bush, mince words. See CLEAR.
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