as in pretending
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as in weaseling
to avoid giving a definite answer or position
the candidate equivocated as long as he could on controversial issues
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Some even pointed to an interview Yang recently conducted with the pop star for Interview magazine, claiming that his comments seemed hypocritical in hindsight given the nature of his SNL performance.Stephen Daw, Billboard, 30 Sep. 2024
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Movie masturbation scenes also highlight our culture’s hypocritical double standard.Caroline Madden, Vulture, 8 July 2024
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The Haganah, seen as the defense force of the mainstream Jewish community, were often duplicitous with the British and other extremist groups.Eliot A. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 19 June 2015
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In contrast, Cardinal Lawrence isn’t as duplicitous, and Davies leaned into that.Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 Oct. 2024
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Plying the country’s backroads, the charismatic con men of literature prey on the gullibility of the faithful with insincere pitches for an overpriced product their targets can ill afford.Nolan Finley, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
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Authenticity Coming across as fake and insincere can sink any branding campaign.Edward Segal, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
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What works for a three-minute single, however, isn’t easily stretched out to 90 minutes, and what is mysterious and evocative or evasive or ironic in a song can be dully matter-of-fact on the screen.Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 23 Oct. 2024
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Often, leaders who hate conflict will either avoid these conversations or be evasive when discussing performance.Roberta Matuson, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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With both stars being notoriously untrustworthy, the glue that held them together was their friendship with Cody Rhodes.Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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There are whistle-blowers who are perhaps a little too fond of the drink and thus possibly untrustworthy.Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
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Multiple critics objected to the latter option on the grounds that popular opinion was notoriously unreliable.Joseph J. Ellis, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
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Election simulations won’t tell you much, either If individual polls are unreliable, what about polling aggregators?Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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If bottles of fake pre-ban absinthe can be produced (perhaps by adding oak chips to modern absinthe and microwaving it) and then used to fill old bottles sourced via internet sales, the potential for unscrupulous profits is huge.Tom Mullen, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Some, for example, were conned by an unscrupulous insurance agent into changing their Affordable Care Act health plans.Craig Silverman, ProPublica, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Equivocating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/equivocating. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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